Sher Khan Nashir (also: Nasher) was the hereditary Grand Khan (Loy Khan) of the Nashir clan of the Kharoti (Ghilji) tribe and governor (Wali) of Northern Afghanistan in the 1930s, known as the "father of Kunduz.[1] He was apparently poisoned by the King of Afghanistan. Many places, schools and Afghanistan's largest port Sher Khan Bandar are named after him.
His nephew Ghulam Sarwar Nasher continued the economic development and transformed Kunduz into a thriving city with new residential housing, schools, and hospitals for the Spinzar factory workers.[12] Kunduz became one of the wealthiest Afghan provinces, Spinzar Cotton Company became the largest and most successful private enterprise in the country with about 20,000 employees.[13] He also ran different mine companies in Panjshir.[14]
The Afghan singer Farhad Darya Nasher is his nephew. Several schools were named after Sher Khan Nasher, including a recent High School named as Sher Khan Afghan High School in the Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province, where the Nashir shrine exist[15][16] with many high-profile graduates, such as Hekmatyar,[17][18]Farhad Darya Nashir, Dr. Saddrudin Sahar[19] and Suleman Kakar[20]
^Ludwig W. Adams (1979). First supplement to the Who's who of Afghanistan: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. p. 41. ISBN978-3201011136.
^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. 8
^Grötzbach, Erwin: Afghanistan, eine geographische Landeskunde, Darmstadt 1990, p. 263
