Mohammad Omar (Afghan governor)

Mohammad Omar (Pashto: انجنير محمد عمر‎) (died October 8, 2010) was the Governor of Kunduz Province, Afghanistan. He was an ethnic Andar Pashtun from Baharak District of Afghanistan.

Mohammad Omar
انجنير محمد عمر
Mohammad Omar on 5 October 2010
Governor of Kunduz, Afghanistan
In office
2004–2010
Preceded byAbdul Latif Ibrahimi
Succeeded byMuhammad Anwar Jigdaleg
Governor of Baghlan
In office
2001–2003
Preceded byNorullah Noori
Succeeded by?
Personal details
BornBaharak, Badakhshan, Afghanistan
DiedOctober 8, 2010
Taloqan, Takhar province, Afghanistan

Omar completed two years of a four-year engineering program at Polytechnical University of Kabul.

Political life

Mohammad Omar served as the mayor of Taloqan from 1991 to 1992. During the civil war, he was a member of Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan.[1] Soon after the fall of Taliban government, Omar was appointed as the governor of Baghlan Province where he served from 2001 to 2003.

He then served as Governor of Kunduz Province from 2004 until he was assassinated on 8 October 2010 when a bomb exploded at the Shirkat mosque in Taloqan, in neighboring Takhar province. 19 people were killed from the bomb, also 35 were injured.[2][3]

Political affiliation

Omar was formerly affiliated with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan, until the time of his death.[1] He was said to be a man with good manners.

References
  1. "Kunduz Provincial Profile." NPS.com. Program for Culture and Conflict Studies at NPS, 15 Sept. 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009.<Program for Culture and Conflict Studies at NPS>
  2. "Afghan governor Omar dies in mosque bombing". BNO News. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  3. "Head of Afghanistan's Kunduz province 'killed in blast'". BBC. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
Preceded by
Abdul Latif Ibrahimi		 Governor of Kunduz, Afghanistan
2004–2010		 Succeeded by
Muhammad Anwar Jigdaleg
Preceded by
Norullah Noori		 Governor of Baghlan
2001–2003		 Succeeded by
?
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