Later Life
Cdr. Firoz Shah moved to his ancestral village of Baghanwala which is a part of Pind Dadan Khan after his retirement, and spent two and a half decades of his life in development projects and uplift of that rural area. He was engaged in farming and social activities, including magisterial duties, local bodies, establishing a girls' primary school at the farm, provision of electricity and a roads infrastructure to the village and the adjacent localities.
He then moved to Islamabad to live with his younger son in the mid-1990s. In 2002, Shah moved to Karachi and spent his last few years there until his death on 6 August 2007. His body was transported home to Baghanwala. He is buried near the grave of his wife, Sughra.
The government of Pakistan honoured Cdr. Firoz Shah for his meritorious services and awarded him the coveted Sitara-e-Imtiaz national award. It was given to his sons a few weeks after Shah's death in 2007.
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