Syed Shahid Hamid

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Major General Syed Shahid Hamid
Personal details
Born	Syed Shahid Hamid (1910-09-17)17 September 1910 Lucknow, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died	12 March 1993(1993-03-12) (aged 82) Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Relations	Altaf Fatima Mishal Husain (granddaughter)
Military service
Allegiance	British India 1934-47  Pakistan 1947-64
Branch/service	British Indian Army  Pakistan Army
Years of service	1934–1964
Rank	Major-General
Commands	Master General of Ordnance (MGO) Adjutant-General (AG) DG Military Intelligence
Battles/wars	World War II Burma Campaign 1941–1942 Burma Campaign 1944–1945 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 Ladakh Military operations
Awards	Hilal-i-Jurat

Major General Syed Shahid Hamid (Urdu: سید شاهد حامد) HJ (17 September 1910 – 12 March 1993) was a two-star general in the Pakistan Army, and a close associate of President Ayub Khan. Hamid was the first Master General of Ordnance (MGO) of the Pakistan Army. He also authored numerous books,^[1] most notably Disastrous Twilight - A Personal Record of the Partition of India 1946-1947, an eyewitness account of being on the staff of the last British Commander in Chief of the Indian Army, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck.^[2]

He was the uncle of the Bombay-born British novelist, Salman Rushdie.

He was the grandfather of the British journalist, Mishal Husain.^[3]