Tajikistan women train to become mountain guides

DUSHANBE. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The Tajik government approved a national development program for the period until 2030 on Friday. The document was adopted at a government meeting chaired by President Emomali Rahmon, the Tajik presidential press ...

ALMATY, Sep 29 (Reuters) Opposition politicians and activists in Tajikistan have accused the government of orchestrating lynch mob-style attacks on their families as part of a broader crackdown on dissent by President Imomali Rakhmon. The Dushanbe ...

TEHRAN - An Iranian trade delegation will travel to the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on October 13, the portal of Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) reported. During their four-day stay the Iranian delegates will visit Tajik trade officials as ...

DUSHSANBE -- Tajikistan says China plans to finance and build several outposts for Tajik border guards along the Tajik-Afghan border. A Tajik government decree published on September 26 said the move would bolster Tajik security. The decree ...

(Warsaw) Relatives of peaceful Tajik opposition activists who are taking part in an intergovernmental conference about human rights and fundamental freedoms in Warsaw have been viciously attacked in cities across Tajikistan, Human Rights Watch said ...

Countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region are regularly affected by adverse natural events. Over the last 30 years, floods and earthquakes alone caused 50,000 fatalities, affected nearly 25 million people, and resulted in US$80 billion ...

DUSHANBE, Sept 26 China plans to finance and build several outposts and other facilities to beef up Tajikistan's defense capabilities along its border with Afghanistan, the Tajik government said on Monday. The Central Asian nation's 1,345-km ...

DUSHANBE. Sept 26 (Interfax) - Dushanbe believes it will be necessary to broaden targeted assistance to Azerbaijan for the purposes of economic recovery, stronger social security and creation of jobs, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirodjidin Aslov said. ...

Qurghonteppa was at the very edge of the Soviet Union, a dusty city in the baking plains of what is now southern Tajikistan, not far from the Afghan border. It is not, at first glance, the kind of place you would expect to find an English library ...