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:''Not to be confused with the governor of Punjab, Shahid Hamid.'' Major General Syed Shahid Hamid () HJ (17 September 1910 – 12 March 1993) was a 2 star general in the Pakistan Army and a close associate of President Field Marshal Ayub Khan who played an important and an instrumental role in bringing Field Marshal Ayub Khan to power in the 1958 coup d'état that overthrew the government of President Major-General Iskander Mirza. Major General Syed Shahid Hamid was the first Master General of Ordnance (MGO) of Pakistan Army. A descendant of Amir Kulal,〔Shahid Hamid, "Autobiography of a General."〕 General Shahid Hamid was an inside player in the crucial months during Independence in 1947. A veteran intelligence officer, he authored numerous books, notably the ''Autobiography of a General'' which was last published in 1965. His other books are "Courage is a Weapon", "Early Years of Pakistan" and "So they Rode and Fought". However, the most important book written by him was "Disastrous Twilight" which was the diary he kept from 1945 till 1947. This was the time he served as Private Secretary to FM Sir Claude Auchinleck, c-in-c of the Indian Army. In this book considerable doubt is cast on the impartiality and the integrity of the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten. It was this lack of impartiality that was one of the main factors in creating the chaos of the independence of Pakistan and India. This was done by manipulating the findings of the Radciffe Boundary Award. He is the uncle of the Bombay-born British novelist, Salman Rushdie, a fierce critic of the ISI that Gen. Hamid founded. ==Early life== Syed Shahid Hamid was born in Lucknow, India. He was admitted in 1923 to Colvin Taluqdar school (Lucknow) and following that by the Aligarh Muslim University where he received his B.A. in Mathematics, followed by his M.A. in mathematics from Aligarh Muslim University. He was accepted to Royal Military College Sandhurst, England in 1932. He received a commission on the Unattached List, Indian Army on 1 February 1934. He arrived in India on 16 February 1934 and was shortly afterwards attached to the 2nd battalion the Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire) regiment at Allahbad. On 12 March 1935 he was admitted to the Indian Army and joined the 3rd Cavalry at Meerut. His senority as a Second Lieutenant was antedated to 31 August 1933. He was later transferred to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps where he served in Kohat, Fort Sandeman and Risalpur. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 November 1935 and to Captain on 31 August 1941. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syed Shahid Hamid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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