Kot-e-Ashro (also Kotah-ye `Ashro, Kot-i-Ashro, Kuteh-Ashro), (Pashto: کوټه عښرو) is a small town in the western Paghman Mountains of Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

The town lies along the Kabul–Behsud Highway, 14.6 kilometres (9.1 mi) by road northwest of Maidan Shar.

[2] They held their fort at Kot-e Ashro until 1987, when they were forced to surrender to the Soviets.

[3] In 2006, the Taliban captured the town, and it ceased to be the capital of Jalrez district.

[4] In late July to early August 2012, 11 citizens of the Hazara ethnic group were brutally tortured and beheaded by the Taliban in Kot-e-Ashro.