Monitoring Desk: Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid better known as Zaid Hamid has claimed that PTI has hired TTP to assassinate him.
Hamid, an author, far-right commentator, and regional analyst, fought against the Soviet Union during Afghan Jihad. Thus, he has good enough connections within radical networking, particularly in Afghanistan; therefore, his claim should be taken seriously. He is known for his outspokenness and fearless comments against power grids whenever he finds anything that, according to him, can harm the country’s interests.
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Hamid had been critical of PTI’s conspiratious and anti-Pakistan politics. According to his close circles, Zaid Hamid has credible information that PTI has paid TTP, (with whom PTI has close contact) to kill him. He believes that former Deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Suri assigned his assassination on the instruction of party leadership because he had been very outspoken and critical of PTI since even PTI was in power. Zaid has a big following on social media and far-right Islamists believe his narrative.
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There have been reports in the past also that the PTI government invited TTP terrorists officially to Pakistan to use them against adversaries and to increase the vote bank in KPK.
National and international analysts have been showing in the past that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and PTI collaborated and TTP had also released statements in favor of Imran Khan and advised the government of Pakistan that is “not to touch Imran Khan”.
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The majority of foreign affairs experts and defence analysts believe that PTI and TTP have a “special political agenda” and that is to target Pakistan Army physically and politically and spread chaos in Pakistan.
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The interest of TTP to install the former prime minister Imran Khan back in the PM office could be well understood because Imran Khan resettled TTP leadership in Pakistan during his tenure as a deal with the terrorist outfit. Defence experts claim that there be many similarities between TTP and PTI as both do not believe in the constitution of Pakistan and both want to remove the constitution; TTP calls the constitution un-Islamic while PTI believes that the 1973 constitution is redundant and must be removed and replaced with a Presidential form of constitution. TTP and PTI both express their hatred for Pakistan Army and both are involved in attacking Pakistan Army. Both use the KPK province as their launching pad as charged and weaponized mobs of PTI always move from KPK to attack the Capital of Pakistan. Moreover, both had been receiving exceptional support from regular courts of Pakistan and both have been using their leverage of being famous in KPK and both do not believe in logical dialogue.
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It may be mentioned that the TTP before the General Elections of 2024 issued a statement instructing its Mujahidins, affiliated groups & supporters to ensure they vote for Imran Khan’s party PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provincial polls.
An audio leak in March 2023 indicated that TTP Shura held on March 6, 2023, and decided to support PTI’s protests and provide human capital to PTI to get back in power. It may be mentioned that on January 11, 2023, former prime minister Imran Khan revealed that he had planned to relocate at least 5,000 TTP fighters and their family members which amounts to about 35,000 from Afghanistan but his government ended before the execution of the whole plan.
Law enforcement agencies claim that TTP provided ground support to PTI for attacking military installations and state buildings on May 9, 2023.
