[1] Qaderi resigned in July 2007 to take up post as Afghan Counsul General in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
He was succeeded as Minister of Counter Narcotics by General Khodaidad.
Qaderi left Afghanistan at the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union, spending time in Pakistan and India.
He also served as an English tutor in Quetta, Pakistan, as part of a programme established by the University of Nebraska.
He returned to Afghanistan following the establishment of the interim Afghan Administration under President Hamid Karzai, initially as the senior advisor to the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation.