Zaid Hamid, a Leader in the making! Would be a nightmare

I moved to USA about 17 years back and hence was relatively out of touch with the developments in Pakistan. Therefore it was not only abysmal but rather surprising to see Zaid Zaman now Zaid Hamid (I am not sure what is he up to or why did he change his name) portrayed as a scholar, a defense analyst, a nationalist and may be someone who can lead our nation in the future. I think the last time I met Zaid was when he attended my wedding ceremony along with few other of his very close friends. All of his associates who attended the ceremony were the followers of a “Peer” named Yusuf. There I came to know that Zaid was not only the devotee but in essence one of the top followers of this “Peer” Mr. Yusuf, an ex army officer with quite a bit of following among youngsters. Later I came to know that this Peer was arrested as he claimed himself to be a prophet.

I met Zaid Zaman first when we went for a debate competition arranged by Pakistan Airforce in Risalpur representing Adamjee Science College. I do not want to comment much about my first impression but it was of course not very pleasant and positive. Then onwards being a debater, I visited Zaid’s academic institution the NED University frequently for different Students Union Programs. At that point Afghan jihad had a great impact on the lives of Pakistani nation. I remember all this not because it was too obvious, but in essence was too weird to too creepy to see Zaid portraying himself as a fighter in a battle field or may be dramatizing his actions as much as if he was acting in a movie scene. Hence I always felt that Zaid had some kind of mental instability. And now being a physician in USA for 17 years, we call some one demonstrating these symptoms as a Bipolar with Manic Disorder type, where one thinks himself as a redeemer, a savior and some one who possess grandiose personality.

What made me write this letter is not that I have any thing against Zaid Zaman, but since he could be another leader in the making in Pakistan, hence I felt it to be my responsibility and obligation to let people know about him. This is the least I could do to my beloved homeland. Pakistani nation has already been deceived and betrayed repeatedly by their leaders in the past. It breaks my heart to see they end up making another disastrous mistake. And once again become victim of prevarication and fiddling. Mr. Zaid Zaman is a devotee of a liar, follower of a claimer of false prophecy and an unstable person. My dear friends this is the age of technology and multimedia resources, like a true believer do not get bitten by the same hole twice. Take your time and use all the possible resources before you start delegating some one as your leader!! Now of course it is up to every individual to decide what do they want to do!!

Mohsin Ansari MD FAAP,
Medical Director,
Clinical faculty
University of Maryland School of Medicine


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  1. Mo Baba Avatar

    Interesting read. You should elaborate more if possible.

  2. Sabeen Syed Avatar
    Sabeen Syed

    OUCH!!

  3. Tayyab Mahmood Avatar
    Tayyab Mahmood

    Dr. Sahib…I agree with you. Zaid Zaman was Khalifa of yousuf Ali aka yousuf kazab (false prophet). If you ask a simple & straight question regard his association with yousuf kazab he will twist the question & topic. Problem is with our nation, we are hypocrite and like hypocrisy.

    1. Aamir Mughal Avatar

      Tayyab Sahab,

      You are correct!

      Courtesy Dr Zafar Iqbal

      Quote"

      zaid hamid ..

      1)complete book on yousuf kazzab and

      2)speach of yousuf ali praising zaid zaman hamid

      ملاحظہ کیجئیے

      http://www.esnips.com/web/completebookfitnayousuf

      فتنہ ء یوسف کذاب پر یہ مکمل دستاویز ہے جو 1997 مین شائع ہوئی تھی۔ اس کی اہمیت اب بھی ہے۔ بالخصوس زید زمان حامد کے ہاتھوں دوبارہ اس گروہ کی تنظیم اور ٹی وی ون پر اسلامی اسکالر اور ماہر دفاع کے طور پر طاقتور حلقوں کے تعاون سے ابھارے جانے کے بعد اس کی اہمیت بڑھ گئی ہے۔

      یوسف کذاب کے کیس کا فیصلہ نامی انگریزی کتاب کا دیباچہ اسماعیل قریشی ایڈووکیٹ نے لکھا۔یہ کتاب بھی 2000 مین شائع ہوئی۔دیباچہ کا اردو ترجمہ ملاحظہ کیجیئے۔زید حامد صاحب اس میں بھی موجود۔۔۔یاد رہے 2000 سے

      http://www.jasarat.com/2008/11/21/columns/details

      چلئے صاحب جن کو یوسف صاحب کی آواز سنے بغیر یقین نہیں آ رہا تھا کہ وہ اپنے ساتھیوں(زید حامد) وغیرہ کو صحابی کہتا تھا۔اب اس کی اور زید حامد کی تقریر سن لیں ۔ جو فروری 1997 میں بیت رضا لاہور میں نام نہاد "ورلڈ اسمبلی" بلا کر کی گئی۔یوسٍف کذاب نے زید زمان حامد کو صحابی کہہ کر بلایا اور زید بے غیرتی کی آخری حدوں کو چھو کر یوسف علی کی تعریفیں کرتا رہا۔ یہ تقریر سیشن کورٹ لاہور میں سنی اور جرح کی گئی اور کورٹ ریکارڈ میں محفوظ ہے۔

      اب سنیے پہلے یوسف علی کو،پھر عبدالواحد کو اور پھر زید زمان کو ۔

      انا للہ وانا الیہ راجعون

      Here is the audio recording of the speech of Yousuf Kazzab and Zaid Zaman Hamid delivered in a "world assembly" held at "bait e raza" Lahore in February 1997.yousuf announces Zaid Zaman(ZZ Hamid) as "Sahabi". Zaid Zaman Hamid in response praises him.

      The audio was presented and testified in session court Lahore

      http://www.esnips.com/web/audiospeachbaiterazayou

      "UNQUOTE"

  4. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    At that point Afghan jihad had a great impact on the lives of Pakistani nation. Mohsin Ansari MD FAAP,

    ================

    Dear Dr Mohsin Sahab,

    Was that really a Jihad???

    Ronald Reagan, William Casey and Jihad
    http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/ronald-r

    Back to school in Afghanistan by Heather Abbott & Catherine McIsaac http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/05/back-to-

    All those Aghan Ghunda whom we know as Afghan Mujahideen was hired in mid 70s to counter Sardar Dawood [Afghan Ruler] by A Ghunda of PPP i.e. Former IG FC Major General [RETD] Naseerullah Babar:

    A.H AMIN: Who were the pioneers of the anti-Daud Afghan resistance?

    BABAR: These were Ustad Rabbani, Hikmatyar, Ahmad Shah Masood and a host of others who came to Pakistan after October 1973.

    Major General (Retd) Naseerullah Khan Babar, Scandals & Shenanigans http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/06/major-ge

  5. Mustafa Avatar
    Mustafa

    Mohsin,

    first of all i don't think he is emerging as a leader, on top of that he never claimed to lead the nation, never portrait himself as a leader of the nation. atleast he is harmless and is not forcing you to listen to him and do what he says.

    "Mr. Zaid Zaman is a devotee of a liar, follower of a claimer of false prophecy and an unstable person. My dear friends this is the age of technology and multimedia resources, like a true believer do not get bitten by the same hole twice."

    Mohsin: "Allah knows what's in someone's heart."

    i have seen Zaid Zaman Hamid performing Shahada on a tv show and declined affiliation with a false religion/prophet.

    And i am always wondering why people from some specific School of thought(s) are criticizing him when their own record is dubious. Usually his critics (most of) also consider Iqbal as a fascist or something like this.

    Or you want be to listen, read and admire people like Nadeem F. Paracha, he has some master piece articles hosted at dawn blogs.

    http://blog.dawn.com/2010/01/28/the-froth-of-khan

    and

    http://blog.dawn.com/2009/12/17/pakistan’s-

    Wa salam.

    Surah Al Asr:

    "By time, Indeed, mankind is in loss,

    Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience."

  6. Observer Avatar
    Observer

    @Mohsin Ansari

    Personally I am also a suspicious about his behaviour/stand towards the PAK army. My own belief is that we have the PAK army to thank for the current and former corrupt political leadership. The army has promoted and nurtured most of the corrupt politicians to prove that they are better at handling the affairs in Pakistan. A very short sighted and stupid policy of the army, which has put Pakistan in serious problems. I am sure Zaid also know these facts, but he still claims that PAK-army is protecting the fort of Islam (Pakistan) and that they are the true leaders of the ummah. He has failed to speak against the most cruel villain in PAK history, the army, and that is a criminal act IMO.

    But I also find your article far too shallow without proper arguments and proofs. I am not saying that your claims are right or wrong, but what I am saying that you have put forward very serious allegations which MUST be substantiated with logic and proofs .

    1. Zaid Hamid was a follower of a false prophet. Where is the proof that the peer Yusuf claimed to be a prophet?

    2. Where is the proof of that the above peer was convicted as a fake prophet?

    3. Are there any records proving your claim of a name change?

    4. As far as I know he is not considering himself as a future leader. I don’t know what is in his mind, but at least he is not saying so for the time being.

    I am no fan of Zaid, but admit that he has the ability to deliver a powerful speech by using historical and other religious references. At the same time I believe his rhetoric can be harmful to Pakistan. I believe we must (mostly) be diplomatic and only when cornered we should use harsher language on critical and matters of high importance like sovereignty.

    1. Kaleem Bukhari Avatar

      TO KNOW THE ANSWERS OF ALL ABOVE QUESTIONS PLZ READ THIS DOCUMENT http://www.scribd.com/doc/23672211/Zaid-Hamid-s-p

  7. Observer Avatar
    Observer

    Btw:

    Nadeem F*** Paratha is a Baboon ready to please his gora masters! Or a Trojan Horse…if you will!

  8. ALE Xpressred Avatar

    Mohsin,

    Although I have detailed records to prove that its the same Zaid Zaman Hamid but I am not interested in using them. I don't care where he stand religiously.

    When you say that he is harmless, I have serious reservations. He is a hate monger, racist, national chauvinist, uses religion to further his agenda of fascism and promotes war hysteria on mass media which is disastrous for young minds. He chews out baseless conspiracy theories, tells false history – all in the name of nationalism and religion.

  9. Mustafa Avatar
    Mustafa

    ALE:

    "He chews out baseless conspiracy theories, tells false history"

    and i had fun reading this (http://blog.ale.com.pk/?p=1231) love affair of Zaid Hamid @your blog.

    1. Azhar Ayaz Avatar
      Azhar Ayaz

      Sanity of the blog quoted above (blog.ale.com) is highly questionable as its is bashing no other than Allama Iqbal in other posts.

  10. ALE Xpressred Avatar

    Thanks for the compliments, Mustafa.

    1. Mustafa Avatar
      Mustafa

      ALE: it's fishiness amused me 🙂

  11. Zain Avatar
    Zain

    If Dr Mohsin has so much truth about Mr Zaid. how come we are hearing about this after such a long period? Mr Zaid has been around for a significant time, and now, Dr Mohsin seems to be the only one reporting this stuff?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?1

    1. Safa Avatar
      Safa

      Yeah because Zaid hamid came into the limelight within a matter fo 2.5 yrs, and that my ear friend is a very small time to gain so much fame.

      The questions do arise if you look at the closely as to why was zaid hamid fone for so long after yousuf kazzab was sentenced to death?

      And lets be honest here, zaid hamid has never directly denied any relations with yousuf he has indirectly denied all the allegations. He only says "come to me with your question and i will answer them in my office blah blah" Question mark? a big fat one u see.

      Third, Dr.Mohsin has not lived in a western influence , he is clearly speaking of what he has known for so long the thing is u just picked something out of the blue and said that, what Dr.mohsin intended was basically letting you guys know. To accept it or not is your choice in the end of the day.

      I agree that he has a very strong influence over us (youths of Pak) and his speech if very well versed and stuff. But lets be very very honest, this is a matter of the whole muslim ummah and pakistan. We have to be sure of who we follow and trust, in the past we have relied way too much in so many people and always in the end get fooled or backstabbed or betrayed.So yeah, as a Muslim pakistani you should be loyal to ure faith and to ure country and be sure of who you choose as ure leader and stuff.

      May Allah SWT protect pakistan and the Muslim Ummah Ameen 🙂

  12. Zain Avatar
    Zain

    Also, Mr Zaid was asked about this at the recent Karachi event [Wake Up Pakistan], and he himself asked how come such a thing is only creeping up on the internet after such a long time…..strange!

    1. Tayyab Mahmood Avatar
      Tayyab Mahmood

      @Zain….I know this person zaid hamid form my childhood… when he used to defend yousuf Ali aka yousuf kazab in 90s, at that time we use to get pamphlet describing yousuf kazab as saint of the time and lightly pointing out that he is "Imam Mahdi"… My Friend anyone who was socially / politically active at that time very well knows Mr. Zaid hamid.

  13. Zain Avatar
    Zain

    If Dr Mohsin or anyone else holds info. that they believe is authentic, why don't they be a little patriotic and come right out with it in public to let people know? … See More

    The problem with a lot of people is that they have learned to jump on anyone's bandwagon without understanding what's going on.

    Ok, fine; although I don't think that there is anything wrong with Mr Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid [which happens to be his full name], at least we do know that he has been a volunteer in the Afghan war; there is ample evidence to prove that…and I can go on about evidence like bla bla bla . But what about Dr Mohsin; what do we know about him? who is he? What we do know is that he has been living under the influence of western society…

    Additionally, whenever I have seen him on TV, he has always praised Our Holy Prophet Muhammad [s.a.w.]…never once has he mentioned anything abt any peer or false prophet….I really wonder where this is coming from.

  14. mak009x Avatar

    If he becomes the leader of Pakistan, God forbid I suppose Pakistan would be in war, against three nations which are always the target of Zaid which are India, Israel and USA. Zaid is anti democratic and openly talks about removing the system and bringing a 'khilafat'.

  15. Talkhaba Avatar

    First of all le me thank "Teeth Meastro" for highlighting this important issue once again. Before I write a rejoinder to Observer’s Questions, I just want to say one thing. I have met dozens of Zaid's past time associates and read couple of others including Dr Ansari, everyone has questioned his mental status. This is what Zaid's Father-in-Law Fyaz-ud-din sahib had opined when I met him along with some friends some months ago in his Karachi residence. All this lead me to obvious conclusion as why had he been No-1 of Yousaf Kazzab, another psychic case.

    @ Observer writes;

    1. Zaid Hamid was a follower of a false prophet. Where is the proof that the peer Yusuf claimed to be a prophet?

    2. Where is the proof of that the above peer was convicted as a fake prophet?

    3. Are there any records proving your claim of a name change?

    4. As far as I know he is not considering himself as a future leader. I don’t know what is in his mind, but at least he is not saying so for the time being.

    ———————————————-

    Let me answer one by one;

    1) It’s has been proved in the court, please read the book including court’s proceeding. The link can be found in the post above.

    2) Again the same link

    3) He hasn’t changed his name, indeed he has silent some parts for some time while used them on other times. His student days, include the Jihadi time, name was Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid. This is the name which he used during his association with false prophet, Yousaf Kazzab. When this writer met Brigadier Aslam, the person who was once the main financer of yousaf Kazzab and then took him to the court tells that when this man [Zaid} appeared on TV show, he [Aslam Sb] was shocked to see him as they both had been in close association for years but he noticed that he was no more using two parts of his name Syed and Zaman. Until recently Zaid used to call him Zaid Hamid but now his website also shows him Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid. But this is not the issue. The issue is his association with false prophet and that he still believe that Yousad Kazzab was not a false prophet instead a good reformer[ please add the reformer who loved to play with the Zulf (beautiful hairs of associate wives and sisters]

    4) I have attended one of his programs organized in Karachi last year, and in which he did talk about the alternative leadership. The person who get annoyed when his family criticize his “main Main Main” in TV shows, how will he tolerate anyone else to lead the lot he has produced or would produce?

    1. Azhar Ayaz Avatar
      Azhar Ayaz

      1. How sure are you that this book "does" depict what the court's decision was.

      2. How sure are you that this book "does" depict what the court's decision was.

      3. There has been no name change. He started to use his complete name after people like you started the propaganda.

      4. Leader or no leader. How does that matter?

  16. faisal Avatar

    Mohsin,

    good one and good to see people like you coming up with truth.

    The problem here with our nation is we look for hero to worship and so called leaders whom we can blindly follow.

    we ve outsourced our thinking process to these phony intellectuals and don't want to think with a free mind.

    like it or not i think our people deserve these kind of morons to lead them through. the only problem which comes is that rest of the people who don't follow these phonies also suffer due to this.

  17. Tayyab Mahmood Avatar
    Tayyab Mahmood

    Faisal….You are absolutely correct, noting more can be added but I'll says.. when a nation is intellectually dumb like our own, then they got dumbest dumb people like Zaid Hamid..In my view we all have created our beacon of light and blindly follow them.

  18. diep Avatar

    respected mohsin sahab,

    is there any way to get your email address or contact no ,If this guy is suffering from mental disorder his place is in fountain house. the way he is poisioning the minds of young people is very dangerous, those of you who can manage to spare some time with the internet please compare him with Hameed Gull on Mumbai terrorism and you will find the answer,

    i agree with ali ,his past association with yousaf Qazab is a religious card and we should not use it.

  19. ALE Xpressed Avatar

    /* The earlier comment of mine (follows) was meant for Mustafa and not Mohsin. */

    Mustafa,

    Although I have detailed records to prove that its the same Zaid Zaman Hamid but I am not interested in using them. I don’t care where he stand religiously.

    When you say that he is harmless, I have serious reservations. He is a hate monger, racist, national chauvinist, uses religion to further his agenda of fascism and promotes war hysteria on mass media which is disastrous for young minds. He chews out baseless conspiracy theories, tells false history – all in the name of nationalism and religion.

  20. farrahshah Avatar
    farrahshah

    Oh come on people !!!

    It is the matter of free choice …it is the choice of people instead of me and you THEY FOLLOW HIM….

    so let us not be jealeous.

    —–

    He is not preaching Break DAnce or Kabala maybe if he would than he would be appreciated by the many.

    There are obvious reasons why many of the emerging entrepreneurs of Indian NGOS (in Paksitan) do not tolerate Ziad in Paksitani media.

    —–

    Any ways I like Pak Nationalism and I like its rise as well in the given situation it is the only way for the youth of Pakistan….and a positive way.

    —-

    I do not agree with everything he says 100% but I do like Pakistan Nationalism.

  21. dr jawwad khan Avatar
    dr jawwad khan

    There are obvious reasons why many of the emerging entrepreneurs of Indian NGOS (in Paksitan) do not tolerate Ziad in Paksitani media.

    _________________________________________________

    Good point.

    i am not the followers of zaid hamid.What he did as a deputy of Yousuf Kazzab is unforgiveable for me.but on the other hand i want to keep the distance from those who are opposing Mr.ZZH on the basis of his anti indian stance on which i agree with him.

  22. KhanLala Avatar
    KhanLala

    @farrahshah,

    He is not preaching Break DAnce

    ——————–

    he will start preaching it soon as he has hired the services of Maria B, a Cat Walkian and Ali Azmat, a known Meerasi.

  23. diep Avatar

    this is the point i earlier wanted to raise , he is poisioning young minds. If all of his followers believe that every wrongdoing in this country is because of zionists, USA and India , then where will we get space to correct ourself and remind our youth that this facist USA has been pouring lot of money in to destroy the future of our youth with the help of our ISI( gurus of MR zaid Hamid) to send them in Afghanistan as Mujahidin and fight the USA war in Afghanistan,

    Do we have to blame India or Israel that we are the most dangerous country in the world to travel, and they are the ones who are giving refuge to all the extremists and fundos terrorists from all over the muslim world .

  24. farrahshah Avatar
    farrahshah

    diep :

    I do blame India ,Israel and USA for scape goating Pakistan and Islam and brandishing it as a country sponsoring Terrorism.

    We are the victims of Terrorism.

    1. Aamir Mughal Avatar

      Why Israel and India alone, why not Pakistan as well?

      "QUOTE"

      Late Maj Gen Aboobaker Osman Mitha [The Only Memon General of Pakistan Army and he founded the Special Service Group (SSG – Commando Division of the Pakistan Army) posthumously published autobiography, Unlikely Beginnings.

      According to Gen Mitha, it was Gul Hasan who saved Brig Zia-ul-Haq, as he then was, from being sacked. Zia was in Jordan. The year was 1971. Gen Yahya received a signal from Maj Gen Nawazish, the head of the Pakistan military mission in Amman, asking that Zia be court-martialled for disobeying GHQ orders by commanding a Jordanian armour division against the Palestinians in which thousands were slaughtered. That ignominious event is known as Operation Black September. It was Gul Hasan who interceded for Zia and had Yahya let him off. Mitha was treated very badly. His Hilal-i-Jurat was withdrawn in February 1972, something that also appears to have been Gul Hasan’s handiwork.

      "UNQUOTE"

      King Hussein (with help from Zia-ul-Haq of the Pakistani army) sent in his Bedouin army on 27 September to clear out the Palestinian bases in Jordan. A massacre of innumerable proportions ensued. Moshe Dayan noted that Hussein "killed more Palestinians in eleven days than Israel could kill in twenty years." Dayan is right in spirit, but it is hardly the case that anyone can tch the Sharonism in its brutality.

      Charlie Wilson's War http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Wilsons-War-Extraor… by George Crile during the so-called Afghan Jihad following things did happen;

      He told Zia about his experience the previous year when the Israelis had shown him the vast stores of Soviet weapons they had captured from the PLO in Lebanon. The weapons were perfect for the Mujahideen, he told Zia. If Wilson could convince the CIA to buy them, would Zia have any problems passing them on to the Afghans? Zia, ever the pragmatist, smiled on the proposal, adding, Just don’t put any Stars of David on the boxes {Page 131-132}.

    2. Aamir Mughal Avatar

      Dear Ms. Farrah,

      No doubt we are a victim of Terrorism but read this Boasting of Musharraf and if Musharraf was right then what was the need of Agra Summit "Forced and Apologetical Hand Shake with Atal Bihari Vajpayee" and if that was Diplomacy then what was the need of this Adventurism?

      "QUOTE"

      No harm in initiating peace talk with India provided it is backed by well defined and through Institutionalized Decision [I mean thorough debate in Parliament with the consent of Opposition] and also no more “Adventurism” like “Kargil or Operation Gibraltar/Operation Grand Slam” without taking Civilian Government in Confidence when Government was caught its pant down by the International Community and caused much embarrassment and above all those [Musharraf/Mahmood/Aziz/Hamid Javed/Tauqir Zia/Jamshed Gulzar Kiyani] were ran to Nawaz Sharif to save them and later the same group sacked Nawaz Sharif. I learnt about Kargil from Vajpayee, says Nawaz By Our Correspondent May 29, 2006 Monday Jumadi-ul-Awwal 1, 1427 http://www.dawn.com/2006/05/29/nat1.htm Musharraf advised against Kargil, says Benazir Staff Report Wednesday, July 02, 2003 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=sto… LAHORE: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday said President Pervez Musharraf had brought the Kargil plan to her when she was prime minister and he was the director general of Military Operations. “Kargil was an absolute disaster,” Benazir said in an interview with the Third Eye Television. “I asked Gen Musharraf what would happen after the execution of his plan. He said he would hoist the flag of Pakistan atop the Srinagar Assembly. I vetoed the plan because I knew we would have to surrender the territory when it would come to the international community and that’s exactly what happened.”

      "UNQUOTE"

  25. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    Mr Zaid Hamid was the biggest Musharraf supporter way back in 2007 and now read this!!!!

    U.S. Jewish leader Rosen visits Pakistan to support Musharraf By Marc Perelman, Jewish Daily Forward http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/928287.html dated Last update – 21:02 26/11/2007

    With the blessing of Washington, Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress's Council for World Jewry, traveled halfway across the globe for a face-to-face meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who he had hailed two years ago as a courageous leader and driving force in Jewish-Muslim dialogue. In recent weeks Musharraf has been roundly criticized for declaring emergency rule and cracking down on his opposition, in particular the judiciary. The de facto declaration of martial law has been widely viewed as an effort to preempt a ruling from the Supreme Court that would have invalidated Musharraf's reelection as president last month. "The real choice we face is not between Musharraf and a return to an effective democratic system, but between Musharraf and the possible collapse of Pakistan," Rosen wrote in a letter to the editor appearing in this week's edition of the Jewish Daily Forward.

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    Rosen made the trip to Islamabad after consulting with the State Department and key members of Congress. In addition to Musharraf, he met with General Ashfaq Kiyani, the deputy chief of staff who is expected to take over for Musharraf as head of the army, as well as ministers and intelligence officials. In his letter to the Forward, he said he also met with opposition leaders. Rosen declined further comment. The Council of World Jewry has made efforts to reach out to Jewish groups in France and Russia, but to date its signature achievement has been Musharraf's appearance at an AJCongress dinner in 2005, the first address made by a Pakistani leader before a Jewish group. At the dinner, Musharraf vowed to improve Muslim-Jewish ties, including relations between Israel and Pakistan, and said he was committed to combating extremist groups. Rosen did stress in his letter to the editor of the Forward that democracy should be the 'ultimate goal' and that Musharraf understands this. But he noted that Pakistan first had to focus on dealing with the multiple threats it is facing. "The most compelling idea that should inform our policy toward Pakistan is the urgent need to keep that country's nuclear arsenal out of the hands of the Islamist extremists," Rosen writes. "That requires some stability, which rests, inter alia, on cooperation between a strong military and a strong executive branch.

  26. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    If all the boasting by Musharraf wasn't enough he rather "Involved" Pakistan as an State in Terrorism [it's Jihad for Muslim not for the Indians] and even if he boasted that then he should have completed the job instead of Romantically Touring India with his wife Sehba Musharraf having a photo session at Taj Mahal and around other "Dead Relics" when Mush-Sehba visited India Agra summit at a glance Tuesday, 17 July, 2001, 12:55 GMT 13:55 U Khttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1430367.stm and that too after two year of Kargil Misadventure.

    Now read Musharraf's Track Record:

    And this takes me back to Pervez Musharraf’s first visit to the US after his coup. At a meeting with a group of journalists among whom I was present, my dear and much lamented friend Tahir Mirza, then the Dawn correspondent, asked Musharraf why he was not acting against Lashkar-e Tayba and Jaish-e Muhammad. Musharraf went red in the face and shot back, “They are not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside.” Pakistani neocons and UN sanctions Khalid Hasan This entry was posted on Sunday, December 28th, 2008 at 6:00 pm. http://www.khalidhasan.net/2008/12/28/pakistani-n… For http://www.newsline.com.pk/newsJan2003/cover1jan2… – General's Election By TIM MCGIRK / KHANA-KHEL Monday, Oct. 07, 2002 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,…

  27. Fahad Ali Khan Avatar

    Salaam alaikum.

    Mr. Zaid Zaman is a devotee of a liar, follower of a claimer of false prophecy and an unstable person.

    He may or may not have been in the past. But why do you or anyone think that he still is a follower of that person? Any evidence?

    Thanks.

  28. faisal Avatar

    @Fahad

    can't say he still follows him or not but he spread same ideas which yussi used to spread.

    Read the book "Fitna e Yusuf Kazzab" and compare the ideas he used to spread . Zaid has just upgraded them , sensationalized them to meet the requirements of current youth.

  29. Talkhaba Avatar

    @Fahad Ali Khan says:

    He may or may not have been in the past. But why do you or anyone think that he still is a follower of that person? Any evidence?

    He is still the follower of Yousaf Kazzab as despite so many requests from many persons including his In Laws to ridicule Yousaf Kazzab , he is not ready to condemn Yousaf Kazzab instead he says I don't know any false prophet which clearly means he doesn't consider Yousaf Kazzab as false while his association with this false Prophet and his claim of prophecy has been proved with documentary evidences.

  30. farrahshah Avatar
    farrahshah

    Hi Amir

    Let us stick to the topic which is Zaid here.do Not worry there will be plenty of posts regarding Musharraf.

    1. Teeth Maestro Avatar

      I agree – Id request Mr. Mughal to stick to the topic – quite a few of the above comments are more like WTF and definitely off topic – Aamir Sb – im closely monitoring this thread and will excersice my liberty to delete off-topic comments – without being offensive lets keep the disucssion relevant

  31. Arsalan Kh Avatar

    Thanks for exposing ZH.

    Hate speech on the name of Nationalism and Islam? Wake up. It will hit you back brutally like the so called Afgan Jihad is hitting us. I believe in freedom of speech and I don't think so he can do much with his emotional crap through television. Youth is frustrated with the rulers and they find people who are criticizing government as a fresh air, so they are listening but are they changing their opinion of if they are, On how big scale this youth is – So many other things needs to considered. But I also believe there should be some laws to restrict his hate speech specially.

  32. Nazia Avatar
    Nazia

    Lets get extract from this discussion.

    An ex army officer Yousuf declared himself as a prophet and

    -Zaid is his big admirer.

    I dont know where he got his training of prophecy in Kakool school of army or staff college Quetta or in Nowshera training school.

    He might got his virtual revelation in CIA office in Washington

    Good to hear that our army also produced prophet like characters, otherwise seeing personalities like maulvi fazal ullah, sufi mohammed. haqqani and fazulrehman brothers are quite depressing quakes of religion in our soil.

    -Zaid was big admirer of Musharraf but no body had seen him close to Musharraf when he was in trouble and looking for some temporary religious support in his last moments as drowning president.

    -Zaid said that our army is protecting the fort of Islam.

    He didn't mention that in this fort of Islam suicidal bombers have been exploded on daily basis in middle of congested Muslim areas,mosques,on poor civilians too.

    He forgot to tell that in this fort of Islam our army raided on poor swatis with full force for killing few thousand insurgents by displacing 3.5 million IDPs.

    I think our establishment is quite serious of replacing fazalurehman, tahir qadri like old scholars with fresh looks of Amir liqaut and zaid hamid like new arsing star of religion.

    After seeing the large audience behind them, it is looking obvious that polarized religious ideology would remain our driving force in coming years.

    Both deliver highly charred comments about qadiyani and shia communities so be prepared for new bloody religious confrontation in coming days to increase the wall of hatred between different sects in coming years.

    .

  33. Ansar Avatar
    Ansar

    well the writer seem to me is suffering some sort of mental disorder himself as he thinks he is doing a great service to nation while sitting in US and telling people by letter what he thinks is right…. I am nt fan of Zaid Hamid but this is more disrupting then him!!!

  34. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    Teeth Maestro says: February 2, 2010 at 10:21 pm I agree – Id request Mr. Mughal to stick to the topic – quite a few of the above comments are more like WTF and definitely off topic – Aamir Sb – im closely monitoring this thread and will excersice my liberty to delete off-topic comments – without being offensive lets keep the disucssion relevant

    ================

    Dr Sahab and Ms Farrah,

    Pardon and sorry.

    Best Regards

    1. Teeth Maestro Avatar

      Aamir Mughal Sb – thank you for understaning – to the topic helps us all discuss the issue at hand 😉

  35. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    I hope Ms. Farrah would remember that arrival of Zaid Hamid on TV Channels was during those days when Musharraf was in deep trouble [Lal Moasjid Days] and situation is WANA was unbearable. Question is as to why Mr Zaid Hamid receive so-much air time on a TV Channel [NEWSONE/TV ONE] which is owned by a very Liberal [actual and harsh term is censored by me] Media Person who often arrange music parties [mix gathering with lot of liquor] at the rooftop???

  36. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    Teeth Maestro says: – February 3, 2010 at 12:59 am – Aamir Mughal Sb – thank you for understaning – to the topic helps us all discuss the issue at hand 😉

    ===========================

    At your service Sir:)

  37. Aamir Mughal Avatar

    Teeth Maestro says: – February 3, 2010 at 12:59 am – Aamir Mughal Sb – thank you for understaning – to the topic helps us all discuss the issue at hand 😉

    =====================

    To contribute for Awab Sahab's excellent thread here is a detailed exchange of my mails/posts [14 Parts]with Mr Zaid Hamid on an elist, discussing Mr Zaid's Manhaj [Methodology] and Beliefs. For your kind perusal:

    Zaid Hamid is a Fraud Par Excellence – 1
    http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2008/11/zaid-ham… [go to the end and click the tag new for the next part]

  38. Sarfaraz Khan Avatar
    Sarfaraz Khan

    This is true. He does not like people commenting on his facebook page or on his videos on youtube that disagree with him. He either deletes their comments or revokes their commenting privileges.

    He is like Hitler. Blames outsiders for our problems and promises to take us to war against them.

    I worry about Pakistan.

    1. Aamir Mughal Avatar

      Khan Sahab,

      A very simple solution to counter such Fascists and i.e. Reading History, Quran/Hadith [plain Quran/Hadith], recent History of War in Afghanistan and then nobody would be able to fool anyone what to talk of Zaid Hamid. Amazing is this that he is being followed by Literate people belonging to middle class and that is very disturbing.

  39. Pakistani Avatar
    Pakistani

    Another timely nonsense by Dr. Awab

    Teeth sahab, then ask your father and his PTI morons why their delegation came exclusively to attend Zaid sb's program at the Convention Centre in Isbd. and why they appraised his efforts on FM 101 the night before yesterday from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m.

    You're such a friggin hypocrite, your own father's partymen are now showing their support to Zaid Hamid and here you're trying to prove something. Go grind your teeth 😀

    1. Teeth Maestro Avatar

      welcome to the blog – im glad to have gotten under you skin – pleasure is all mine

  40. Sjl Avatar

    While reading all the posts i gathered that the main concern at hand seems to be zaid hamid's influence over young minds.

    During my educational life i got to learn one thing about access to materail tht could influence thoughts. Not every book is for every person and neither i think is any content that mite be influential. Reason: Not every one might have the ability to be impartial while having the inteligence of picking up truth.

    If one is to condemn a certain talkshow for the mere reason of it being influential then the list of such programs goes longer. Personally i think that where everybody has a right of free speach, one should not portray personal thoughts and opinions as hard facts.

    As to him being a follower of a false prophet if he doesnot deny it than it raise questions offcourse. I remember some one saying that he has the right to follow whome ever he wants, but dear if and i say IF he is still a follower of such belief than being on open forum he has the power to poison young minds. But than its a speculation.

    But one more thing comes to my mind is that someone can influence you only if u allow- If someone presents ideas related to Islam- one can always check it with Quran and sunnah to confirm whether it is liget and rellivent or not or not

    1. Aamir Mughal Avatar

      Dear Sjl,

      What amazes me the most that Mr Zaid Hamid is/was invited on many channels and from start to end talks continuously [particularly on BrassTacks launched on TVONE/NEWSONE] without any moderation or any counter question from the host [most of the time Female – where is the veil???? from the Islam of whose Glory Mr Zaid want to revive]. In one of the Final Episode of that Program on NEWSONE a grand episode was telecast as a conclusion wherein several leading journalists [often appear on different TV Channels as "Expert"], 2 Retired Military Officers [often appear as "Defence Analyst"] and one leading Editor of an English Financial Daily who used to be a Host on the same TV Channel and Newscaster/"Financial Expert" of the same Channel participated and they were asking questions [rather putting words in the mouth of Mr Zaid Hamid] the same words/theories on which Mr Zaid Hamid is very fond of lecturing. All the guests most of time were sitting like "Summun, Bukmun, Umyun" [Deaf Dumb Blind] and listening to the Lecture of Born Again David Koresh or Rev. Jim Jones of Pakistan.

      Nobody questions the content! Why? whereas [I am no fan of GEO] but famous GEO TV Host Iftikhar Ahmed had resigned in protest from GEO on this:

      Geo ‘Jawabdeh’ host Iftikhar Ahmed resigns in protest

      Monday, November 17, 2008 http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200

      LAHORE: Iftikhar Ahmed, the host of Geo TV show ‘Jawabdeh’, resigned on Sunday after the channel administration refused to air an interview with former Pakistan Television managing director Shahid Masood. The interview was recorded last week and was being advertised in the group’s The News and Jang newspapers. On Sunday, the Geo TV administration seized the original recording and declined to run it. Iftikhar Ahmed told Aaj Kal he was being pressured to censor parts of the interview but he did not compromise on principles and resigned. aaj kal report

  41. Adil janjua Avatar
    Adil janjua

    Dear Mohsin Ansari, i feel so sorry for you because you are also one of those people who sit back and talk!

    What have you done for Pakistan???

    You moved from here 17 years back!!

    Now when someone is trying to do some thing you are doing the same as other people do. Why don't you come to Pakistan, have a press conference and then give each and every proof of what you are up to. Please if we are doing something wrong then come BACK!! STAND, SPEAK AND DO SOMETHING!!

    1. Safa Avatar
      Safa

      You actually want to know what Dr.Mohsin did? Go google him up if u can, he is a very active person and pretty much doing a lot for what he is capable of and able to. If you dont know then pls dont speak.

      Our duty as Pakistanis is to safeguard each other and not act as open enemies. If we dont hold each others' backs and dont protect them , then when enemies attack we shall be alone. We need to support each other, act like shields. What you are speaking is a bit too judgmental and selfish on a part of someone who tried to do his job as a Pakistani.

  42. faisal Avatar

    its so easy to mix deceptions and personal agenda with truth to fool people.

    it is rightly said partial truth is more dangerous than a complete lie.

    if someone wants to read about the federal reserves and the way it works then one can go for genuine work done by “Libertarian” scholars, anarcho capitalists, austrian economics school of thoughts and economic historians like thomas e woods , FA hyke etc

    zaid’s analysis is not genuine he is misusing the ideologies of iqbal, jinnah, austrian economists with lots of molding for his and his client’s interests.

    use your own brain and investigative approach for learning the realities instead of relying on these phonies like ZH

  43. awara Avatar
    awara

    People who spoke or worked against US interest ended up in Guantanamo, so how come this lad is enjoying a luxury life in Islamabad?

    Zaid Hamid Kezzab accuses Muslims of being CIA agent, it is a buhtan, rather kufr. Because he is calling other Muslims as worse than a Kafir without a proof. Thats what he called Hamid Mir…

    http://www.pakpoint.com/a-war-between-hamid-mir-a

    Zaid Hamid Kezzab is a new tactic by ISI and Pakistan Army, because people of Pakistan were not happy with Pakistan Army acting as blackwater. So Zaid Hamid comes into picture to take away that segment of society who had softer corner for the Islam in Pakistan.

    Zaid Hamid Kezzab never said that he followed a false prophet. Yousuf Kezzab said he is Muhammad (naozu Billah),meaning he is not another prophet after Muhammad(S.A.W.W)

    So when Zaid Hamid Kezzab says he is a follower of Muhammad, he is not lying.

    His analogy is "because India is our enemy" so close your eyes and buy my theories. He is preaching to people of Pakistan to worhship Pakistan Army. Listen to his speech about the operation of Pakistan Army in Bangladesh. He claims that Pakistan Army is innocent.

    He is pimp of our corrupt Generals, who use Islam to build mansions.

    M M Alam, the great fighter pilot of PAF, regrets that he fought for Pakistan Army.

  44. awara Avatar
    awara

    This bastard cries of Blackwater, well who opened the gate for blackwater? who rented out bases in Jacobabad and Pasni?

    I guess he would blame Zardari.

    It was our beloved Pakistan Army.

    Dear Zaid Hamid Kezzab, you sided with Ahmed Shah Masood and he gets assisinated. You become a follower of Yusuf Kezzab and he gets murdered and now you are siding with Pakistan Army….Did Pakistan Army just bought themselves very very bad fate?????

  45. Talkhaba Avatar

    @Azhar Ayaz

    1. How sure are you that this book “does” depict what the court’s decision was.

    2. How sure are you that this book “does” depict what the court’s decision was?

    3. There has been no name change. He started to use his complete name after people like you started the propaganda.

    4. Leader or no leader. How does that matter?

    1. We believe it does depict but if you have any doubt you can obtain the copy of original verdict from court.

    2. Same answer

    3. You’re right that there was no name change but to give up two important parts of his name was not unintentional. In our previous discussion the members of Ziad’s cult were telling us he is not Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid, the person who had been supporting Youaf Kazzab, but after presenting some former members of Yousaf and Zaid’s Fitna-e-Batila, they at once changed their stance. Even then this question is not important. The important question is that Zaid Zaman Hamid was the No-2 [Abdual Ahad was the No-1]of Yousaf Kazzab and that Yousaf was rightly convicted in blasphemy case. For detail please read the book

    4. It does matter. We will never let the persons like Ghulam Ahmed Qadiani and Zaid Zaman [both maaloon] to lead the people of Pakistan in the name of Islam and Muslim Ummah. To me and in fact all true believers in true Islam any person of good character , having leadership qualities can lead us but if he believe in the Allah and Muhammad (SAW) as the last prophet of Allah(SWT)

  46. Mohsin Ansari Avatar
    Mohsin Ansari

    People who were enthralled and mesmerized by Zaid Zaman’s eloquence are facing a dilemma now. Some of them are not ready to accept this is the same Zaid Zaman who was the Sahabi and the right hand of Yusuf Kazzab ( May Allah forgive us ). One of them a famous English newspaper journalist wrote me an email as if I was mistaken with his identity and my answer to her was

    “Do not want to get into an argument. This is the same guy I am seeing on TV whom I have known for almost 30 years now. I do not believe that Zaid had a twin brother and nor Pakistan has advanced so much that the scientists can make clones at least at this point.

    Some of them are making them selves satisfied by saying that he is the same guy, but now he is a changed person with a different ideology, for them my questions are:

    1) Did he ever say that he was a follower of a fake Prophet once and he has accepted Islam again, and if he had any proof of reverting back to Islam??

    2) Why does he has such a rickety personality that he has been every where ranging from Afghan Jihad to Sufism to anti Sufism and then to TV shows.( Remember my suggested diagnosis of manic Bi Polar disorder)

    3) Go and listen to the audio tapes of all fake claimers of prophecy ( Including Qadyanees), they all have qouted Quran and Sunnah in their speeches as the tools to attract the masses, even the audio clip which was sent in the link by someone in this blog shows that Yusuf Kazab himself in the speech where he claimed to be a prophet ( May Allah forgive us ) quoted Quran and mentioned his love and submissiveness he had for our beloved prophet PBUH. http://www.esnips.com/web/audiospeachbaiterazayou

    Hence be ware this is the way they work! And this the way they baffle and confuse minds!

    I am hoping and praying that Zaid has reverted back to Islam if yes then he should come in front bold and brave accept his previous affiliations, and accept that he had made mistakes in the past and condemn Yusuf Kazab as he should be condemned. And declare that now he is a true servant of Prophet Muhammad PBUH in public!!

    Mohsin Ansari MD FAAP,

    Medical Director,

    Clinical Faculty

    University of Maryland School of Medicine

    pedsdoctor@hotmail.com

  47. Nazia Avatar
    Nazia

    I think majority who attended this discussion showed one kind of trend that such characters like zaid hamid actually brought in our system for some kind of religious manipulation which would be used in political purpose in coming days.

    Point is how they manage to have a big audience behind them even after behaving like runaway brides?

    It is very important to know their financial status

    The out come of Yousuf kazab and scattering of his group at the time of military rule is telling us that he was removed by the scene by using the knife of blasphemy law.

    If our army can save a simple captain and other army men from rape charges of Dr shazia.Our COAS was so confident about the performance and character level of a captain that he admitted innocence of Captain in his TV announcement without completion of any legal formality.

    So when army wanted to save junior officer they did it and dr shazia had to leave Pakistan for her personal security.

    So who ever fabricated blasphemy law against Yousuf, was surely behind his grooming.He was removed from scene might be some defiance attitude had been seen in his behaviour which usually comes out at the last age of our hard core civilized criminals.

    So zaid hamid is backup of yousaf like characters.

    The induction of small trimmed beard , highly charred religious scholars, with fine get up is showing us that now foreign forces are fed up of abnormally long beard and clumsy dress up of our typical maulvis who were previously groomed to develop talibanisation culture in our soil.They want to swap them with some kind of decent looking personality to bring new kind of religious ideology in coming years.

  48. Talkhaba Avatar

    @Mohsin Ansari

    Dr Sahib we all wish is reverted back to Islam but that hasn’t happened to this day.

    If someone organize a fashion show, with models wearing two small piece of clothes, that would upset me as I consider it as bad, but if someone organize a fashion declaring it Islamic, I will use of my energies to bar him from doing so. Actually, Ziad is doing this. I have attended two of his early programs, in which he tried to attract the youth by claiming that he was struggling for a just Islamic political system governed through interest free economy. When asked any question from the participants of these gatherings, the replied “Look he is doing what the religious political parties have failed to do” But now he is out for “Takmeel-e-Pakistan” (www.takmeel.pk) with the help of Maria B and Ali Azmat.

    But this is not surprising as the former members of Kazzab [I have talked to 5 such person] tell us what Yousaf Kazzab would be doing with the girls. How did he abuse the girls, even the wives of his own followers?

  49. Talkhaba Avatar

    @ Nazia

    I suggest you to visit the former members of Kazzab cult , especially brig Aslam sb and you will change your words.

    He was not removed by the scene by using the knife of blasphemy law, instead he was a blasphemer. If you’re a believer in Khatm-e-Nabuwwat, then please do listen the audio given in the link by Ansari sb. If even you're unable to understand, I will tell you has he said. I also suggest that you should obtain the original copy of verdict and see whether it was knife or he was convicted for a crime which he had done

  50. Tayyab Mahmood Avatar
    Tayyab Mahmood

    Dr Sahib …. Our Nation is like “Dolay Shah k Chohay”.

    We Pakistani live in big prision, we worn the chains of financial, religious and cultural slavery. We can easily squash these chains but wouldn't want to free our selves rather blame others for our miseries.

    People who like characters Like Zaid Hamid only impress by hardhitting stance, not knowing and don't want to know, the background of zaid hamid and his dirty tricks…