Post-retirement
Shahid Hamid was deeply interested in education and he helped found, and was then patron for 20 years of, the Sir Syed College, which today educates 3,500 students. He was one of the earliest travellers in Pakistan's mountainous Northern Areas and opened up the region for local people and tourism by pushing through road projects and writing books and articles which publicised the beauty of the area.
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