Education
Hamidi graduated from Kabul University with a degree in finance.
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, District of Columbia area, and worked as an accountant at Transport 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 Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency and Iran"s Revolutionary Guard"s Quds Force. Two of Hamidi"s deputies and a police chief were previously assassinated.
Hamidi himself survived a 2009 bomb attack on his car.