Faisal Vawda 'predicted' Faiz Hameed verdict 'long time back'

Senator says former spymaster’s sentence ‘only the beginning’

Senator Faisal Vawda said on Thursday that the unprecedented conviction of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Faiz Hameed was “only the beginning”, claiming that the ex-spymaster was now providing evidence in his trial against former prime minister Imran Khan and others in connection with the May 9 events.

In a post on X reacting to the Field General Court Martial (FGCM) verdict, Vawda said the development had taken place exactly as he had previously predicted “at a time when no one could even imagine it”. “14 years’ imprisonment… this is the beginning,” he wrote.

جیسا میں نے کہا تھا اور اس وقت کہا تھا جب کوئی تصور بھی نہیں کر سکتا تھا اور آج وہی ہوا۔

14 سال قید۔۔۔یہ ابتدا ہے

اہم۔۔۔

ابھی تو فیض حمید اپنے ٹرائل میں 9 مئی کے شواہد اور گواہی خان صاحب / جادوگر اور دیگر کے خلاف دے رہے ہیں( اس سے فیض حمید کی سزا میں کوئی کمی نہیں ہو گی)

یاد…

— Faisal Vawda Senator (Indep) (@FaisalVawdaPAK) December 11, 2025

The former federal minister stressed that Hameed’s conviction pertained to “only one case (four charges)” and that trials in other cases, including those linked to May 9, were still ongoing. He asserted that the testimony Hameed was allegedly giving “against Khan sahab / jadoogar and others” would not reduce the former spy chief’s sentence.

Vawda also revisited his long-standing claim that he had been expelled from the PTI “one year before May 9” because he had been warning party leadership not to pursue that course of action. “I said at the time that once they take the path of May 9, there would be no return,” he added.

He warned that PTI members involved in the May 9 violence, including those who had since “moved to the sidelines”, would not escape accountability, nor would “those who used their pen against Pakistan ([former Supreme Court judge] Athar Minallah)”, or those who were “still steering politics in the same direction today”.

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Vawda went on to praise the army chief, “The nation loves the commander of its victorious army, Asim Munir, with all its heart. The reason is that what did not happen in 75 years has now begun… the foundation of justice has been laid within his own institution.” He asserted that the developments had proven that “no general, no judge and no political leader is greater than Pakistan. Pakistan stands above all”.

Vawda reiterated that “those running narratives of killing, violence, abuse and aiding enemies against Pakistan” would no longer be given “an inch of space” and would be made an example of “legally”. He said, “Barbarity will be used to take anti-state elements to their final fate”. “Pakistan will always live on,” he added.

‘May 9 facilitators next’

Separately, the senator said that the decisive phase would take place once the verdicts in the May 9 cases were delivered.

Referring to the PTI, he said the political party behind the violent protests would “see its fate written on the wall”, adding that the process of justice “will not stop now”. He argued that the real reckoning was in the still-pending cases related to the May 9 unrest, which he accused the PTI and its founder Imran Khan of orchestrating.

He said the May 9 events unleashed “destruction” and damaged “the state, politics, the judiciary, democracy,” alongside an alleged attempt to seize control of the media. With this latest conviction, “the foundation has been set that nothing is bigger than Pakistan; the principle of accountability and reward has now been established”.

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The former PTI leader alleged that the party responsible engaged in “drama”, while its founder oversaw a ferocity that led to people being harmed and national institutions, martyrs’ memorials and state symbols being attacked.

He claimed he had repeatedly warned his former colleagues that such actions had “no path of return,” only to be expelled from the party for doing so. He stressed that the fact that “their own [army’s] man’s trial was not halted” marked an unprecedented shift.

The senator said that the core issue in Pakistan had long been the absence of a functioning system of accountability. “Army chief Gen Asim Munir has initiated this corrective process from within his own institution.”

Vawda further said that those who facilitated the violent protests on May 9 would also be “wiped out”, adding that if the armed forces were unwilling to spare their own, “Do you think others will remain safe?”

He said this was merely the beginning, with “many charges still pending” against PTI leaders, judges of the time and other individuals who “believed themselves bigger than Pakistan” but now stand politically isolated.