Gholam Serwar Nasher

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Ghulam Sarwar Nasher (b. 1919 - d. 1984) was the President of Spinzar Cotton Company in Kunduz, Afghanistan. He is known to have founded the Nasher Library and Museum in Kunduz. Ghulam Nasher, an ethnic Pashtun, made Kunduz become one of the richest provinces of the country, due to running his company in the area. He was an avid hunter, art collector and philanthropist. Ghulam Nasher was jailed after Prince Mohammed Daoud Khan's coup in 1973 because of a personal feud and the fact that Nasher was anti-communist. In 1979, Nasher went to Germany and died there in 1984. He was the uncle of the famous Afghan singer, Farhad Darya.

In late 1960s Sarwar Nasher was also influential to young man Hekmatyar whom he also thought, bright up and man sent him to a military school and then to Kabul University's engineering department in 1968, earning the nickname of "engineer Hekmatyar" among his followers. However, on his return to Kunduz he was jailed by Nasher for several days. It was Hekmatyar's father who requested Lord Sarwar Nasher to do so in order to discipline the boy for toying too much with the communist ideology.