Omar Hamid Height, Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Omar Hamid

• After passing the CSS exams, Omar became an ASP in the police force in 2003.

• He was initially assigned to the Garden Police Headquarters located in Karachi. During gang warfare, he had served in the dangerous Lyari neighborhood of Karachi.

• He has majorly worked in both the Sindh Police’s Counterterrorism department and Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau.

• On July 5, 1997, his father, Shahid Hamid, who was a bureaucrat and managing director of KESC (K-Electric), was assassinated, in the Defence Housing Authority neighborhood of Karachi, along with his driver named Ashraf Brohi, and his bodyguard, Khan Akbar.

• On May 12, 2015, Saulat Mirza, who is a convicted Pakistani murderer, was hanged in Machh jail after he was found guilty and given the death penalty by the court.

• Omar Hamid has served as a police officer for seventeen years. In 2011, he was also put on a Taliban hit list while he was heading the Karachi’s counterterrorism cell.

• After that, he left the police force for about five years to write his first three novels in London.

• Omar went back to Karachi and became a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in the Sindh police’s counterterrorism division.

• Based on his experiences as a Police officer and as a counterterrorism specialist, he wrote a crime thriller book titled The Prisoner (2013) while he was on sabbatical. The book became a bestseller in India and Pakistan.

• A few of his other books includes The Spinner’s Tale (2015), The Party Worker (2017), The Fix (2019), and Betrayal (2021).

• In March 2019, his novel The Party Worker’s Netflix adaptation was signed.

• His role was portrayed by the actor Aditya Uppal in the Indian spy thriller film Dhurandhar (2025), which is inspired by Operation Lyari.
  

  Aditya Uppal’s still as Omar Hamid in the film Dhurandhar(2025)