President, ZTBL congratulates to Hameed Shahid, Vice President, ZTBL Head Office, Islamabad on conferment of Pakistan Civil Awards on 14th August, 2016 (Tamgha-i-Imtiaz) on the occasion of Independence Day by President Mamnoon Hussain. The investiture ceremony of these awards will take place on Pakistan Day, 23rd March, 2017.
Hameed Shahid is the fiction writer and critic duly recognised in the world of Urdu literature. He has a number of published books of short stories, novel, critics and translations and more than a thousand literary critical papers published in leading literary magazines.
He is also a member of advisory penal of editorial board of literary Magazine "Adbiat" published by Pakistan Academy of letters. He is member of advisory Board of Halqa Arbab-e-Zauq, Islamabad. Several Universities allocated topics for research about his life and literary works to students of MPhil level. His works has also been acknowledged by the critics and two books have been published to evaluate his work exclusively. His book was nominated for UBL literary prize in 2016 as well.-PR