Hamidullah Qalandarzai was born in Surkh Rod

Surkh Rod District

Surkh-Rōd , also spelled as Surkh-Rūd or Sorkh-Rūd, is a district in the north of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The district centre is the town of Sultanpur...

 district of Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar Province

Nangarhar is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan in the east of the country. Its capital is the city of Jalalabad. The population of the province is 1,334,000, which consists mainly of ethnic Pashtuns with a sizable community of Arabs and Pashais....

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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. He is the current governor of Khost Province

Khost Province

Khost is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the east of the country. Khost province used to be part of Paktia province in the past...

, replacing Arsala Jamal

Arsala Jamal

Arsala Jamal was appointed the provincial Governor of Khost Province, Afghanistan in August 2006.Arsala had previous experience in rural development, in both the NGO and Government sector.Arsala Jamal was born in Katawaz district of Paktia Province....

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Early life

Qalandarzai completed his primary education at Rahimi Primary School in Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar. In 1984, he graducated from Nangarhar High School. In the same year he was admitted to the Faculty of Engineering of Nangarhar University

Nangarhar University

Nangarhar University is a government-funded higher learning institution in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. It is the second largest university in Afghanistan. It has approximately 250 faculty and 3,500 students....

 and graduated with a degree in engineering in 1989.

Work life

• 1989 up to 1992 he was a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Nangarhar University.
• From December 1992 he worked with the Afghan Development Association (ADA) in different position and different location of Afghanistan.
• May 2000 up to March 2004 he worked as a regional manager with ADA in southern and northern regional offices.
• Hamidullah was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Administration with the Ministry of Communications
  Minister of Education (Afghanistan)
  The Afghan Ministry of Education is responsible for policy formulation, the organization and supervision of education in Afghanistan. Its headquarters is located in Kabul. The current Education Minister is Ghulam Farooq Wardak.-Ministers:...
  
  in Kabul on 20 March 2005.
• 2008/2009, he was appointed as the governor of Khost Province.