BA LLB MCL (Uni San Diego USA)
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Health Centre Pakistan
Australian Concept Fertility Centre Pakistan
Australian Academy of Dermal Science International
Australian Skin Health International
Aus-Path Lab International
Barrister & Solicitor
Supreme Court of Western Australia
In his 38 years of professional and corporate career Shahid has consulted and advised clients in a range of areas but his core areas of interest and focus have been Education and Health.
Shahid started his legal career in Peshawar, Pakistan in the year 1980. Following his admission to the NWFP Bar Council as an Advocate of the Peshawar High Court in 1982, Shahid than studied a Master of Comparative Laws degree at the University of San Diego, California in 1983-85. He wrote a thesis on the “Freedom of Expression” and his other legal research works included: “A Comparative Analysis of Oil Concession Agreements”; “OPEC” and “Export Controls and the USA Foreign Policy”.
From 1985 to 1988, Shahid practiced law in Karachi offering consultancy to a number of corporate and public clients including the Irish Consulate General Karachi specializing in international law, corporate and banking laws and appearing in civil and constitutional matters before the Sindh High Court.
Shahid immigrated to Australia in 1989 and was admitted as a Barrister, Solicitor and Proctor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in December 1991. In the years 1992-93 Shahid was employed as an Associate to the Honorable Justice Tos Barnett, Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Perth Registry, Western Australia.
Shahid continues to practice on his own account since 1993 to-date and has made sound contributions in the field of immigration, international corporate, commercial and civil litigation, trade practice, consumer protection, administrative and Islamic law. He has consulted for a number of institutions in education and health that include University of Wollongong, Illawarra Technology Corporation, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, West Coast Institute of Management and Technology, International Health Care, Skin and Hair Clinic Image21 and Concept Fertility Center. Shahid has assisted in the training and development of students, doctors, nurses and health experts from Pakistan, and also in the establishment of the first international IVF Clinic in Pakistan, namely, Concept Fertility Center at Karachi in the year 1998, to scientifically help the non-fertile couples. He is the CEO/Director of the Australian Health Centre Pakistan, Concept Fertility Centre, Australian Academy of Dermal Science International, Aus-Path Lab International.
Shahid has visited many countries that include South Africa, United Kingdom, USA, New Zealand, Belgium, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Malta, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran and China.
He has held memberships of the Association of American Law Schools; Law Society of Western Australia; Migration Agents Registration Authority Australia; Pakistan Bar Council; Peshawar and Sind High Court Bar Associations and he was the President of the Pakistan Association of Western Australia Inc (1992-93).
Shahid has edited and assisted in publication of his father’s book titled “In Search of Light, Love and Freedom”. The book is the collection of a number of articles addressed to Shahid over a period of last 35 years to cultivate, educate and to help with the unfolding of a young mind in developing understanding about the mystery of life, creation and phenomena, and encouraging it to explore the answers. As such, seek knowledge, to emancipate ourselves from external and internal uncertainties, miseries and agonies.