Ghulam Haider Hamidi

Sharwal Ghulam Haider Hamidi
غلام حیدر حمیدی
Mayor of Kandahar
In office 2007 – 27 July 2011
Succeeded by	Qazi Mohammad Omar
Personal details
Born	1947 Kandahar, Afghanistan
Died	27 July 2011 (aged 65) 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. 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. In 2007, he returned to Afghanistan when the country was under the Karzai administration.

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 and Iran's Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force.

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. Two of Hamidi's deputies and a police chief were previously assassinated. Hamidi himself survived a 2009 bomb attack on his car.