Nasher (Kharoti clan)

{{History of Afghanistan}}

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Nasher are referred to in 1120 A.H (1709 A.D.),Runion, Meredith L.: {{Google books |title=The History of Afghanistan |page=63 |id=aZk9XzqCFGUC }} when Ghilji Pashtun tribesmen under Khan Nasher successfully overthrew Safavid rule to establish the Ghilji Hotaki dynasty, which controlled Afghanistan from 1719 to 1729 A.D. and much of Persia from 1722-1729 until Nadir Shah of Persia seized power in the Battle of Damghan.

The Nasher lived as Khans of the Kharoti (Pashto: خروټی), a Pashtun tribe of Ghilji origin with an estimated population of about 5.5 million, making it one of the largest, if not the largest tribe in Afghanistan, with significant territory throughout eastern and south-eastern Afghanistan: Ghazni, Zabul, Paktia, Khost, Logar, Wardak, Kabul and Nangarhar.Personalities: An Examination of the Tribes and the Significant People of a Traditional Pashtun Province - Timothy S. Timmons and Rashid Hassanpoor (2007)

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After the great Ghilji rebellion in 1885–1886, led by Alam Khan Nasher, the Nasher family was exiled by the ruling Barakzai King Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in order to weaken his nemesis.{{Google books |id=zz9_Ve29eL0C |page=42 |title=The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers}} Peter Tomsen, PublicAffairs, 2011

Sher Khan Nasher, Khan of the Kharoti soon became governor of the Kunduz district launched an industrialisation campaign, founding the Spinzar Company, with major urban development and construction programmes.Wörmer, Nils (2012). "The Networks of Kunduz: A History of Conflict and Their Actors, from 1992 to 2001" (PDF). Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. Afghanistan Analysts Network. p. 8Grötzbach, Erwin: Afghanistan, eine geographische Landeskunde, Darmstadt 1990, p. 263

Economic development transformed Kunduz into a thriving city with new residential housing, schools, and hospitals for the factory workers.Emadi, Hafizullah: {{Google books |title=Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan. The British, Russian, and American Invasions |id=JZ1gAQAAQBAJ |page=60 }} Sher Khan Nasher also implemented Qizel Qala harbour that was later named Sher Khan Bandar in his honour.Tanwir, Halim: {{Google books |title=AFGHANISTAN: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1 |id=oyQDAwAAQBAJ |page=253 }} As his power grew and he eventually controlled the whole north of Afghanistan, the throne was within his reach, which is why there are theories that he was poisoned by the Barakzai king.del Castill, Graciana: {{Google books |title=Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan |id=iBVwAwAAQBAJ |page=58 }}

Sher Khan's nephew and stepson Ghulam Sarwar Nashir developed Spinzar further, employing over 20,000 people and maintaining construction companies, a porcelain factory and hotels in Kunduz and throughout Afghanistan.Reuter, Christoph: Power Plays in Afghanistan: Laying the Groundwork for Civil War, 49/2011 (Dec. 5, 2011) of DER SPIEGEL http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/power-plays-in-afghanistan-laying-the-groundwork-for-civil-war-a-801820-2.html

Long before he became a radical, Nashir sent fellow Kharoti Hekmatyar to Kabul's Mahtab Qala military academy in 1968, as he considered him to be a promising young man.Roy, O.; Sfeir, A.; King, J (eds.): {{Google books |title=The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism |page=130 |id=rNrMilgHKKEC }}Killing the Cranes: {{Google books |title=A Reporter's Journey through Three Decades of War in ...von Edward Girardet |page=183 |id=OClphN8UbZUC }} After he was expelled from the Mahtab Qala, Nasher imprisoned him briefly for toying with Communist ideology,

Der Spiegel reported in 2011 that the chief of the Kunduz district was Nizamuddin Nasher, considered to be the "last scion of a legendary Afghan dynasty" still living in Kunduz.

• Sher Khan Nashir, founder of Spinzar Cotton Company and founding father of Kunduz
• Gholam Serwar Nashir (1922–1984), president of Spinzar Cotton Company
• Gholam Nabi Nasher (1926–2010), parliamentarian
• Gholam Rabani Nasher (1940–), member of the Loya Jirga
• Farhad Darya Nashir (1962–), singer and composer

• Sher Khan Bandar, largest port of Afghanistan
• Nashir Museum, Kunduz

{{Reflist}}

• Dupree, Louis: Afghanistan
• Emadi, Hafizullah: Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan. The British, Russian, and American Invasions

{{Pashtun tribes}}

Category:Ghilji Pashtun tribes