Zaid Hamid

Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid (Urdu: سید زید زمان حامد, born 14 March 1964) is a Pakistani Islamist political commentator and conspiracy theorist.

Born to a Pakistan Army officer and a Kashmiri mother, Zaid is a supporter of jihad and supports Kashmir-centric anti-India organizations. He claims he fought in Soviet-Afghan War. He is a supporter of Pakistan Army interventions in matters of state and actively campaigns against democracy in Pakistan. He supports an Islamic system of government.

In 2019, The Muslim 500 included him in their yearly most influential Muslims in the world, as a political commentator and host of the Brass Tacks TV series on geo-politics, Islamic philosophy, Muslim history, and Dr. Iqbal’s vision for Pakistan.

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.