Omer Shahid Hamid

Omer (Omar) Shahid Hamid[1] (born October 23, 1977) is a Pakistani writer, a former senior superintendent of police (SSP) in the Sindh Police, and son of the assassinated Shahid Hamid, Managing Director of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC).

Career

After successfully passing the CSS Examinations, Omar joined the Police Force in 2003 as an ASP. His first appointment was in Police Head Quarters, Garden, Karachi.

Personal life

Omer Shahid Hamid is the son of the late Shahid Hamid, a bureaucrat and managing director of KESC (now K-Electric), who was murdered along with his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar, in the neighborhood of Defence Housing Authority, Karachi on 5 July, 1997. Saulat Mirza, the accused in the case, was convicted and sentenced to death by the court, and was hanged in Machh jail on 12 May, 2015.[2] Omer is married and a father of two sons.

Death Threat

Omer Hamid served on Karachi's police force for thirteen years, leaving the Sindh Police in 2011 after being placed on the hit list of the Taliban.

Writer

After leaving the police, Omer wrote a novel, The Prisoner (2013),[3] inspired by the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. His second novel, The Spinner's Tale, was published in 2015 by Pan Macmillan India.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Omer Shahid Hamid
  2. ↑ Express Tribune
  3. ↑ npr Books
  4. ↑ The Wall Street Journal; July 7, 2015. Q&A: Omar Shahid Hamid, Pakistani Policeman Turned Novelist, by Syed Shoaib Hasan. Retrieved May 15, 2016.

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