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Sher Khan Nashir (Sher Mohammad Nashir) was the hereditary Grand Khan (Loe Khan) of the Kharoti (Ghilzai) tribe and governor of the Kunduz region in the 1930s.
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Life
Born as the son of the Khan of the Nasher clan of Ghilzai Kharoti Pashtuns, he left Ghazni in the early 20th century as the Nasher family was exiled by the ruling Durrani King Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in order to weaken his nemesis. Sher Khan launched an industrialization campaign with major urban development and construction programmes of what then became Kunduz. He is also known as the founder of the Spinzar Cotton Company in Afghanistan, and implemented Qizel Qala harbour that was later named Shir Khan Bandar. In addition, several schools in Afghanistan are named after him. There are rumours he was killed by the leading Barakzai king for fear of being de-throned by a Ghilzai Khan.
Legacy
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. 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. The Afghan singer Farhad Darya Nasher is his nephew .Several schools were named after Sher Khan Nasher, with many high-profile graduates, such as Hekmatyar, Farhad Darya Nasher, Dr. Saddrudin Sahar and Suleman Kakar