Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid سید زید الزمان حامد | |
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| Born | Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid March 14, 1964 (age 60)[1] |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Alma mater | NEDUET[2] |
| Occupation(s) | Pakistan Army [3] Political Commentator |
| Organization | Brass Tacks (Pakistani TV program)[2] |
| Website | http://www.zaidhamid.pk |
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| Years active | 2011–present | ||||||
| Subscribers | 62.7k subscribers[5] (Sep 2023) | ||||||
| Total views | 2,940,928[5] (Sep 2023) | ||||||
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Last updated: 20 September 2023 | |||||||
Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid (Urdu: سید زید زمان حامد), better known as Zaid Hamid, is a Pakistani far-right, radical Islamist political commentator and conspiracy theorist.[3][6]
Born to a Pakistan Army officer and a Kashmiri mother, Zaid is a supporter of Jihad and supports Kashmir-centric anti-government organizations.[7] He claims he fought in Soviet-Afghan War.[7] He is a supporter of Pakistan Army interventions in matters of state and actively campaigns against democracy in Pakistan.[7] He supports Islamic system of government.[7]
In 2019, The Muslim 500 included him in their yearly most influential Muslims in the world, as a political commentator and host of TV series on geo-politics, Islamic philosophy, Muslim history, and Dr. Iqbal’s vision for Pakistan.[4]
Historian Manan Ahmed Asif called him the leading voice of a new Pakistani revivalism, because he radicalizes young, urban men and women under the age of 30 — the largest demographics of Pakistan — into a mixture of militant Pakistani nationalism and Islamism.[8]
- ^ Amber Rahim Shamsi (9 May 2010). "Will the real Zaid Hamid please stand up?". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ a b "States cannot survive under dictatorship: CJ". DAWN. 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ^ a b c "Pakistani Militant Conspiracy Theorist Zaid Hamid". Jamestown. Archived from the original on 18 February 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Zaid Hamid". The Muslim 500. The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. Archived from the original on 1 September 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ a b "About Zaid Zaman Hamid Official". YouTube.
- ^ Zaka, Fasi (25 September 2008). "Hate speech -- II: The Pakistan report card". The International News. Karachi, Pakistan. Archived from the original on 16 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d Moini, Qasim A. (3 July 2015). "Situationer: The Zaid Hamid enigma". DAWN. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019.
- ^ Manan Ahmed (11 March 2010), "Pakistan's new paranoia", The National UAE. Retrieved 26 April 2020.