Minister Qaderi obtained a degree in mechanical engineering from Malaviye Regional Engineering College in Jaipure, India.  He worked as a program logistics officer in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and as a field officer in the Chaman, Lorlai, and Dalbandin refugee camps in Pakistan.  During the Mujaheddin's interim government, he served as an English instructor under a program established by the University of Nebraska for Afghan refugees in Quetta, Pakistan.

After the Bonn Agreement and establishment of the interim administration under H.E President Hamid Karzai in 2002, Minister Qaderi returned to Afghanistan and began working as a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation.  He was an active member of Afghanistan's tripartite commission with the United Nations, Iran, Pakistan, Denmark, and the U.K.  He was appointed Minister of Counter-Narcotics by the President in 2004.