page_title: Nasher (Kharoti clan)
section_title: In the 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Nasher (Kharoti clan) / In the 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Alam Khan Nasher, ca. 1895
context_page_description: The Nasher are a noble Afghan family and Khans of the Pashtun Kharoti tribe. The family is originally from Qarabagh, Ghazni but founded modern day Kunduz in the early 20th century and lived there until the end of the Barakzai dynasty in the late 20th century. Members of the family now live in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and in Germany.
context_section_description: 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.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.
  Economic development transformed Kunduz into a thriving city with new residential housing, schools, and hospitals for the factory workers. Sher Khan Nasher also implemented Qizel Qala harbour that was later named Sher Khan Bandar in his honour. 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.
  Several schools were named after him, with many high-profile graduates, such as Hekmatyar, Farhad Darya Nasher, Dr. Saddrudin Sahar and Suleman Kakar Muhammad Nasher Khan was the governor of Badakshan in the 1930s.
caption: Alam Khan Nasher, during the Second Anglo–Afghan War, 1879