Ghulam Haider Hamidi

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Ghulam Haider Hamidi
غلام حیدر حمیدی
Mayor of Kandahar
In office
2007 – 27 July 2011
Succeeded by Qazi Mohammad Omar
Personal details
Born 1947[1]
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Died 27 July 2011 (aged 65)[2]
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Nationality Afghan-American
Alma mater Kabul University
Occupation Mayor, accountant

Ghulam Haider Hamidi (Pashto: غلام حیدر حمیدی‎, also spelled Ghulam Haidar Hameedi and also known as Henry Hamidi; 1945 – 27 July 2011) was the Mayor of Kandahar in Afghanistan.

Hamidi graduated from Kabul University with a degree in finance. [3] He spent a brief period in Pakistan and lived in the United States for almost nineteen years. He settled in the Washington, D.C. area, and worked as an accountant at Trans Am Travel, a wholesale travel agency in Alexandria, Virginia.[4] In 2007, he returned to Afghanistan when the country was under the Karzai administration.[1]

On 27 July 2011, Hamidi was killed in Kandahar by a man who had hidden explosives inside his turban. The target killing or assassination was blamed on the Taliban insurgents, who are guided and supported by foreign elements such as Pakistan's ISI spy agency[5][6] and Iran's Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force.[7][8][9][10]

Two other associates of Afghan President Hamid Karzai – his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai and Jan Mohammad Khan – were assassinated in the weeks that preceded Haider's killing.[11] Two of Hamidi's deputies and a police chief were previously assassinated. Hamidi himself survived a 2009 bomb attack on his car.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Profile of Kandahar mayor Ghulam Haidar Hamidi". CNTV. 2011-07-27. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Kandahar Mayor Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack". Breaking News. Sky News. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Northern Virginians mourn Ghulam Haider Hamidi, assassinated Kandahar mayor". Washington Post. 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  4. ↑ "Northern Virginians mourn Ghulam Haider Hamidi, assassinated Kandahar mayor". The Washington Post. August 2, 2011.
  5. ↑ "U.S. blames Pakistan agency in Kabul attack". Reuters. 22 September 2011. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "Pakistan condemns US comments about spy agency". Associated Press. 23 September 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  7. ↑ Jha, Lalit K (March 16, 2011). "Concern in US over increasing Iranian activity in Afghanistan". Pajhwok Afghan News. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
  8. ↑ O'Rourke, Breffni (April 18, 2007). "Afghanistan: U.S. Says Iranian-Made Weapons Found". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Afghans find tons of explosive devices transferred from Iran". CNN. October 6, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  10. ↑ Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?
  11. ↑ Amir Shah, Patrick Quinn, Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez, Kathy Gannon (2011-07-27). "Ghulam Haider Hamidi Assassinated: Mayor Of Kandahar Killed By Suicide Bomber, Say Afghan Officials". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2012-04-15. The slaying of Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi was the third killing of a Karzai associate in a little more than two weeks. mirror
  12. ↑ "Ghulam Haider Hamidi". The Economist. 6 August 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
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