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The Pak Tribune described Ali as a "gangster" during the 2004 Afghan Presidential election. He and his private army have been accused of accumulating illegal weapons, Drug cartel drug trafficking and opium trade, criminal intimidation, land seizures for builders, looting and sexually assaulting women, for which Hazrat Ali is under Human Rights Watch monitor.

Hamid Karzai appointed Hazrat Ali as the Jalalabad police chief 2003 and was sacked on 2004 due to connection with Taliban and some other militant groups. He got a seat in the Wolesi Jirga of the National Assembly of Afghanistan in the 2005 Afghan parliamentary election, representing Nangarhar Province. In May 2012, it was reported that Iran was providing millions of dollars to Ali for the purpose of blocking the National Assembly's approval of the Afghan-US strategic cooperation agreement. However, the next day the agreement was approved by the majority and the following day Ali denied the allegations.

During late 2001 and early 2002 it was US policy to employ very few US ground troops, and to rely on air power and local allies, like Hazrat Ali to defeat al Qaeda. The Asia Times reports that Ali was one of the warlords who allowed Bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora.

Ali was born in 1964 in Kabul to an ethnic Pashai family. He rose to prominence during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. As a commander for Hezb-e Islami Khalis he quickly became an important leader for the Pashai community. Hazrat Ali has also been described as an Afghan Army commander under the Soviet puppet regime. He fled Afghanistan to live in Mashad, Iran, where he is believed to have married an Iranian woman.