Kharoti

Kharoti (Pashto: خروټی) is a Pashtun tribe, of Ghilji origin, based in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. 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. wa Foundation stone of Kandooze city was laid by Sher Khan Kharoti. A border with Russia and a bridge is in the name of Sher Khan Kharoti the big leader of Kharoti tribe. Kharoti tribe people also live in Zahidan and Karimabad city of Iran and around 2000 families of the tribe reside in Zahidan and Karimabad but they do not speak Pashto rather they speak Persian and Balochi languages. In Pakistan people of Kharoti tribe live in Chaghi district of Balochistan of Pakistan, but they also do not speak Pashto rather they speak Balochi. They also live in Noushki, Balochistan but speak Balochi but actually are Pashtuns. 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 twons of kharoti tribe. In Rawalpind city of Punjab there are 300 families of kharoti tribes.

Significance

As Pashtuns of the Ghilji confederacy, the heyday of the Kharotis were during the peak of their Khans of the Nasher-Nashir family. With the rise of Ghilji's rival confederacy, the Durrani in the 18th century, the Kharoti lost their leading role in Afghan politics but remained strong in the Afghan rural regions. However, they often view themselves as the 'true Pashtuns' and being Ghilji as the rightful leaders of kpk (Pakistan) and(Afghanistan)

Notable Kharoti

• Sher Khan Nasher, Loe Khan (Grand Khan) founder of Spinzar Cotton Company and founding father of Kunduz
• Gholam Serwar Nasher, Khan (1922–1984), president of Spinzar Cotton Company
• Gholam Nabi Nasher, Khan (1926–2010), parliamentarian
• Hafizullah Amin, politician and president of Afghanistan
• Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, warlord and former minister
• Farhad Darya Nasher, Khan (born 1962), singer and composer
• Mirwais Ashraf, Afghanistan National Cricket Team player
• Haji Ghani Kharoti Pakistan, Loralai Katwai, Leader of Kharoti family in loralai pakistan who come from helmand afghanistan