Abdul Ghafoor Breshna (Pashto: عبدالغفور بريښنا) (10 April 1907 – 4 January 1974) was an Afghan painter, music composer, poet, and film director.

[3] Breshana was born as Abdul Ghafoor on 10 April 1907 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

He studied painting and lithography at Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.

[citation needed] Breshna composed the Afghan nationalist anthem that was used from 1973 to 1978.

Breshna's work was displayed all over world like Tehran (1953, 1966), Delhi (1954, 1974), Cairo (1956), New York City (1957), Moscow (1965,1973), Peking (1967), Sofia (1967), Cannes (1971) and Dushambe (1972).