Molana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri

Early life and education Haideri was born in June 1957 to Muhammad Azam Lehri and received his early education in his village located in the Kalat District of Balochistan.

In 1979, he completed his religious education and passed examinations from the Examination Board of Wafaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia.

In 1984, he opened the Jamia Shah Wali Ullah school in Kalat, teaching there from 1985 to 1990. Abdul Ghafoor Haideri maintains, "Only a victim's kin has the right to pardon the killer with or without taking compensation. This is an Islamic way of justice and being an ideological state, Pakistan should have Islamic laws." and later took oath as deputy chairman senate. He is expected to serve in that capacity till March 2021.

In February 2017, Haideri was refused a visa by US authorities. He was scheduled to head a two-member delegation to an Inter Parliamentary Union meeting at the United Nations in New York.

On 12 May 2017, he managed to escape an ISIL bombing shortly after the end of Friday prayers near the town of Mastung that targeted him; he was lightly wounded by pieces of glass from the windscreen of his car.