Omar Shahid Hamid returns as CTD’s SSP Intelligence

KARACHI: Omar Shahid Hamid, the son of slain former KESC chief Shahid Hamid, has been appointed as SSP Intelligence for the Sindh police’s Counter-Terrorism Department, Karachi.

He rose to fame after he wrote two books, and later ruled out pardon for his father's killer Saulat Mirza, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker who was later disowned by the party

As per a notification issued a day earlier, Hamid, a Grade-19 officer who was awaiting a posting, has been transferred and deputed as the CTD’s SSP Intelligence, taking over from SSP Aamir Farooqi, who has been granted ex-Pakistan leave.

After successfully passing the CSS Examinations, Hamid joined the police force in 2003 as an ASP. His first appointment was at the Garden Police Headquarters. He then moved to serve as SP Lyari Town where he worked closely with the Lyari Task Force that was headed by slain SSP Chaudhary Muhammad Aslam.

After a hiatus from the police force, Hamid returned as SSP of the then-Crime Investigation Department in the latter half of 2000s. This posting paved the way for him to again work in coordination with SSP Aslam, who was then leading the Sindh Police’s Anti-Extremism Cell. 

SSP Hamid also played an integral part in anti-terrorist operations in Karachi and Sindh, before leaving the country on ex-Pakistan leave in 2014. 

He also authored two books, 2013’s ‘The Prisoner’, 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.   

—Originally published in The News

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