Background
Bamyani was born on 18 December 1951 in Bamyan City in Afghanistan. His father, Sayed Ali Husseini, served as the Deputy Speaker of the Foreign Minister during the 1960s.
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Sayed Hussein Ali Bamyani
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He studied engineering at Kabul University.
Career
He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2006 in Kabul. He was an ethnic Fars of the Hazara tribe. Bamyani"s family were strong supporters of Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan.
In 1996, the Taliban seized power in Kabul with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia and established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
In 1996, Bamyani started his activism against the Taliban and Mujahideen in Iran. In 2001, Bamyani went to Turkey and started his activism against the Mujahedin in Turkey.
In 2005, he came back to Afghanistan, and started his activism against the Taliban in Kabul. In 2006-2007 (1384) Bamyani was gunned down in his home in the city of Kabul.
The Afghan government refused.
Politics
In 2006, he joined the United National Front, whose leader was former President of Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani.
