Mohammad Omar

Mohammad Omar Sulaimani (died October 8, 2010) was the Governor of Kunduz Province, Afghanistan from 2004 until he was assassinated in October 2010.

Early life He was an ethnic Andar Pashtun from the Baharak district of Afghanistan. He was the son of Mohammad Anwar Khan. Omar completed two years of a four-year engineering program at Polytechnical University of Kabul. Soon after the fall of Taliban government, Omar was appointed as the governor of Baghlan Province where he served from 2001 to 2003.

Death Omar was killed on 8 October 2010 when a bomb exploded at the Shirkat mosque in Taloqan, in neighboring Takhar Province where he was present for Friday prayers. He had reportedly prior warned that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were expanding in Kunduz and called for more security reinforcements from the government.

Political affiliation Omar was formerly affiliated with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan, until the time of his death.