She was assassinated whilst serving as the Minister of Health in the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.

In the mid-1990s, Qamar returned to her native Somalia, where she later joined the nation's Transitional Federal Government.

[2] They had been attending a Benadir University graduation ceremony,[3] while the male bomber had passed through security dressed as a woman in an Islamic veil.

[4] The bombing was subsequently called a "national disaster" by President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.

"[5] There is a school named in her honour and this was to be renovated in 2018 as announced by the Somali Minister Deqa Yasin in November 2018.