Dagarwal (Colonel) Abdul Rahman Shahidani
Phone: 0777382638

2. Previous Functions:
Deputy Provincial Police Chief Ghazni Province (20100306)
Wolesi Jirga Member 2010 MP MNA Bamian Bamyan Bamiyan

3. Biodata:
Dagarwal Abdul Rahman Shahidani Shaheedani, son of Sakhidad, was born in 1963, in the Shahidani area of Bamyan city, Bamyan province. Shahidani received his primary and secondary education at the Shaheedan School in Bamyan province. He then went on to complete further study at the Russian Military Academy and graduated in 2004.

Shahidani joined the Mujahideen in 1996. Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, he worked for the government, becoming the head of police and security in Bamyan in 2006, the chief of police in Ghor province in 2007, head of the National Directorate of Security in Balkh province in 2008 and  the chief of police in Ghazni in 2009, until the registration of candidates for the election began.

Shahidani ran unsuccessfully for parliament in 2005, gaining 5,191 votes and coming in fifth in the province. He heads the Study and Research

Committee of the Coalition for the Support of the Rule of Law.
 

Shahidan is now a Wolesi Jirga 2010 member. He bagged most votes in the election 2010 in Bamian Province.
 

Commission (2012): Natural Resources and the Environment (Secretary, 2011 and  2012)

Abdul Rahman Shaidani, who used to be a commander in Hezb-e Wahdat, close to Khalili. Shaidani had more recently been a member of a rival, post-2001 Hazara party, Hezb-e Mellat, led by MP Jafar Mehda'i who supported first Ghani and then Rassul. However, Shaidani left Hezb-e Mellat to join Abdullah’s campaign.(20140418)

A number of MPs and analysts urged government to arrest Abdul Rahman Shaheedani, an MP from Bamiyan, who is “the main suspect of the case”.
“The law has not been ruled on powerful figures and leaders even from the far pasts in Afghanistan. This is the reason which motivated him (Shaheedani) to add his name to the list of powerful figures. This act by him could have taken dozens of lives; therefore, law must be ruled on him,” said Sayed Ekram, an MP.
“Our demand from the parliament and from our President (Ashraf Ghani) is to punish those who are behind the incident in order to inform others about the rule of law on everyone,” said Hekmatullah Shahbaz, a university lecturer.
Two Bamiyan MPs, including Shaheedani, reportedly missed their Kam Air flight in Kabul last week on Tuesday, May 23,2017. On approach at the Bamiyan airport, the Kam Air plane, the MPs were booked on, was prevented from landing and forced to return to Kabul. Relatives of the MPs converged on the runway blocking the plane, which was carrying 30 passengers, from landing. Relatives of the MPs also threw stones on the runway when the plane tried to land. Once back in the capital, the plane refueled and again took off for Bamiyan – this time with the two MPs on board.
Footage of the return flight to Bamiyan shows that MP Abdul Rahman Shaheedani, who was on board with another MP Ghulam Husain Naseri, argued that he made the move to “break the taboo” and to make people realize his “position” and his “place”.(20170528)

Abdul Rahman Shahidani, a former Bamyan member of the House of Representatives, joined the Taliban and traveled to Qatar. (20201013)
 

He is married and has seven sons and three daughters.
 

He speaks Dari, Pashto, English and Russian.