Gholam Nabi Nasher

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Ghulam Nabi Nasher (10 May 1926 – 25 June 2010) was the son of Loe Khan Nasher and grandson of Sher Khan Nasher. He was an ethnic Pushtun, the hereditary Khan of the Kharoti (Ghilzai) tribe, born in Qarabagh, Ghazni. Ghulam Nabi Nasher was the Mayor of Kunduz and later he was elected for two terms as a Senator from Kunduz. During the time of King Zaher Shah, he served as the president for the upper house (house of Lords) of the Afghan Parliament. He was an avid philanthropist and bequeathed his home in Falls Church VA to the local Islamic center.

Kharoti is a Pashtun tribe, of Ghilji origin, based in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Quetta there is Kharotabad there people live 3275 houses and they live here from 1945 Many of the Kharoti have business in gulf countries and Pakistan. They have an estimated population of about 5.5 million, making it one of the larger, if not the largest, tribes in Afghanistan, Pakistan with significant territory throughout eastern and south-eastern Afghanistan. There are major Kharoti populations in the Paktika districts of Urgun, Barmal, Sar Hawza, Zarghun Shahr, Omna, Surobi, and Ghazni, Zabul, Paktia, Khost, Logar, Wardak, Kabul, Nangarhar, Helmand and Gomal. The Kharoti also have a strong presence in the Pakistani province of Balochistan, as well as the port city of Karachi in southern Pakistan. Bordering Tadjikistan is the largest harbour city of Afghanistan Sher Khan Bandar, named after Sher Khan Nashir, Khan of the Kharoti. Members of the Kharoti also live in the Iranian cities of Zahidan and Karimabad, where around 2000 families of the tribe reside; they typically speak Persian and Balochi. In Pakistan, people of the Kharoti tribe live in the Chaghi district of Balochistan of Pakistan, and typically speak Balochi. They also live in Noushki, Balochistan. Kharoti people also live in Chamalang near to Loralai and call themselves Kharotani but speak Balochi. In KPK province in Dera Ismail Khan many of these tribes' people live. In Punjab as well at Mianwali Road there two towns of the Kharoti tribe. In Rawalpind city of Punjab there are approximately 300 families of Kharoti origine.

Qarabaghdistrict is 56 km to the south-west of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan. The 1,800 km² area is one of the most populated at 109,000; some reports count more than 218,000. The ethnic composition of the district includes Hazaras and Pashtuns. The landscape varies in different parts of the district - deserts in the southwest, plains in the southeast and mountains in the north. The district is seriously affected by drought, especially farming and animal husbandry. Health and education need serious improvement.

Kunduz is a city in northern Afghanistan, which serves as the capital of Kunduz Province. The city has a population of about 268,893, making it about the 6th-largest city of Afghanistan, and the largest city in the northeastern section of the country. Kunduz is located in the historical Tokharistan region of Bactria, near the confluence of the Kunduz River with the Khanabad River. Kunduz is linked by highways with Kabul to the south, Mazar-i-Sharif to the west, and Badakhshan to the east. Kunduz is also linked with Dushanbe in Tajikistan to the north, via the Afghan dry port of Sherkhan Bandar.

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