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Summary A Hamid, 83, a prolific Urdu writer, who wrote over 200 books, passed away in Lahore on Friday.
Abdul Hameed, known as A Hameed, was born in 1928 in Amritsar. He passed his secondary education in Amritsar, passed intermediate in Pakistan as a private candidate and join Radio Pakistan as an assistant script editor. After working some years for Radio Pakistan, he joined Voice of America.His first collection of short stories, Manzil Manzil, got a great acclaim from the readers and made him a well recognised romantic short story writer.Apart from writing short stories and novels, he wrote columns for national newspapers. He wrote many programmes for Radio and TV which had got tremendous acknowledgement from listeners and viewers.
