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The Tajik government should immediately and unconditionally release a seriously ill political activist who says he has been tortured, nine human rights groups ...

The Indian U-23 national team ended its AFC U-23 championship qualifiers campaign with a 2-0 loss to Tajikistan in its second match of the group stage at the ...

GE Renewable Energy has received a hydropower contract from Barki Tojik, to refurbish the state-owned Qairokkum hydropower station in Tajikistan.

Sharofiddin Gadoev, a 33-year-old political activist who had fled repression in Tajikistan, was kidnapped by Russian officials during a visit to Moscow. He was ...

The revelation that China's military is active in Tajikistan and Afghanistan is a setback for India's strategy in Central Asia.

Tajik and Russian officials arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Tajikistan a peaceful opposition activist while he was visiting Moscow, the Association of ...

At least two people have been killed in days of clashes along the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Communities in the area have long been at loggerheads ...

Human Rights Watch and eight other rights groups have urged the Tajik government to immediately release a gravely ill political activist who claims to have ...

While some people in the WHO European Region take clean drinking-water for granted, many communities throughout the Region – and the world – still suffer ...

Several former members of the Tajik opposition movement Group 24 have called on the country's Supreme Court to remove it from the list of banned extremist ...

Tajikistan says it soon plans to repatriate more than 70 children born under the banner of Islamic State in hopes of preventing their future radicalization.

The first phase of a project to rehabilitate the largest hydropower project in Tajikistan was officially launched yesterday.The Nurek plant, which has an installed ...

Last week's dynamite story by the Washington Post's Gerry Shih provides the strongest evidence yet of a Chinese military presence in eastern Tajikistan. Backed ...

Human Rights Watch says a prominent Tajik opposition activist was kidnapped, beaten, and tortured in Russia and Tajikistan before he was allowed to return to ...

Tajikistan's internet continues to get slower, ranking among the worst in the world. The state's censors and their self-dealing seem to be the cause.

Tajikistan thought the days of electricity rationing were in the past. But the last two weeks have seen a regular schedule of blackouts across much of the country.

A coalition of international rights groups has claimed that the Russian security services connived with Tajikistan to abduct a Tajik opposition activist in Moscow ...

Conflict in the Pamirs is rooted in both nation-building and everyday life.

In an exclusive interview, the opposition leader kidnapped, renditioned to Tajikistan, and then released spoke about his ordeal with Eurasianet – and made ...

Tajikistan is considering the possibility of increasing the transportation of its goods through the Baku International Sea Trade Port. Minister of Economic.

In 2016, the UN estimated that 14000 Tajiks were HIV-positive -- since then, that number has surely grown.

A Tajik activist says government officials abducted him and pressured him to support President Emomali Rahmon's eldest son, Rustam, in the 2020 election.

In a striking departure from custom, Tajikistan allowed an opposition activist whose abduction it engineered two weeks ago to leave the country and return to the ...

The internet in Tajikistan is not just bad now — it is also becoming very expensive. The state anti-monopoly agency announced this week that as of March 27, ...

Wolves have killed two women in eastern Tajikistan, prompting complaints from residents that they have been unable to defend themselves against wolf attacks ...

On 21 March 2019, the Dushanbe city government organised a street carnival, involving up to 25000 people, to begin nationwide celebrations of Nowruz, the ...

Gorno Badakshan – Khursheda Ilchibekova has dreamed of having her own bakery since she was ten years old. She grew up in the beautiful but troubled ...

English Situation Report on Tajikistan about Agriculture, Education, Children, Women and more; published on 31 Jan 2019 by WFP.

Sharofiddin Gadoev has lived as a refugee in Holland since 2015; he was detained on a trip to Moscow and transported to Tajikistan where family members say ...

On this week's Majlis Podcast, our panel discusses Beijing's security interests in Central Asia and how far they might go.

COUNTRY PROGRAMME OVERVIEW. Tajikistan is a lower-middle-income, food-deficit country that is the second in the world in dependency on remittances ...

English News and Press Release on Tajikistan about Agriculture and Food and Nutrition; published on 12 Mar 2019 by FAO.

DUSHANBE, February 28, 2019 – Households, schools and health clinics in the poorest regions of southern Tajikistan will gain access to improved water supply ...

By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18. Despite recent surgery, retired widower, Jehovah's Witness Shamil Khakimov, is in pre-trial detention in Khujand under criminal ...

Read more about Cabinet apprised of pact with Tajikistan for cooperation in renewable energy on Business Standard. The Cabinet was Thursday apprised of a ...

Central Asia consists of five states: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Their collective size is about ten per cent of the Eurasian ...

ISLAMABAD: Tajikistan investors and businessmen have expressed interest in taking advantage of incentives offered by Prime Minister Imran Khan, which will ...

Tajikistani investors and business community will take full advantage of excellent package of incentives offered to foreign investors by Prime Minister Imran ...

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will pose a tough challenge in India's quest to break their AFC U23 Championship Qualifiers jinx (Image Credits- AIFF Media).

Not only is Lyft not profitable now and losing $911 million a year, the company has said it's not sure how it ever will be profitable. But investors don't care. Driving ...

RFE/RL's Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderated a discussion on Gadoev's case -- and on previous situations where the accounts of the Tajik ...

ASTANA – The number of flights between Kazakhstan and Tajikistan will increase from 18 to 32 per week this year, reports the Kazakh Ministry for Investment ...

Tajik authorities implementing a new religion law are barring children from attending religious services and have burned thousands of calendars with Bible ...

A disputed section of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan reopened on March 18 following the successful conclusion of four days of bilateral talks.

English News and Press Release on Tajikistan about Disaster Management, Health and more; published on 04 Mar 2019 by IFRC.

Georgia and Tajikistan signed a draft agreement on International Road Transport which will facilitate the growth of the passenger and freight traffic flow between ...

Western media outlets recently announced China has built military facilities on the Tajik side of the Tajik-Chinese border. The move is significant as it is first ...

HARIPUR: Federal Minister for Water and Power Omer Ayub Khan Monday said Wapda would import electricity from Tajikistan to overcome electricity shortfall in ...

Tajikistani investors and business community will take full advantage of excellent package of incentives offered to foreign investors by Prime Minister Imran.

HARIPUR: Federal Water and Power Minister Omer Ayub Khan said on Monday that the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) would import ...

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The qualifiers for the AFC U-23 Championship is set to commence on March 22 as India travel to Uzbekistan to book their slot in the 16-team tournament that will ...

After taking the I-league by storm, Danu wants an opportunity to showcase his talent at the international stage...

Your initial reaction when you see South Africa's ranking on the World Happiness Index is that it is bulldust because, at number 106, we rank below nations that ...

AKIPRESS.COM - President of Tajikistan dismissed Abdurahim Kahharov as the Secretary of the Security Council of Tajikistan due to his retirement... To Read ...

Artists performing traditional dance during Nowruz Celebration organized by Serena Hotel in collaboration with the Diplomatic Missions of Afghanistan,

WASHINGTON — The two soldiers were identified as Spc. Joseph Collette of Lancaster, Ohio, 29, and Sgt. 1st Class Will Lindsay, 33, of Cortez, Colorado.

President Dr. Arif Alvi has said that after successfully addressing the challenge of terrorism, the country is on the threshold of change. He expressed these views ...

Tajikistan's Interior Ministry says prominent opposition figure Sharodiddin Gadoev has returned to the Central Asian country from abroad and "is sorry for his ...

As Emomali Rahmon attempts to establish dynasty, ailing banking sector, restive region and search for capital trouble poor nation.

Tajikistan has set up a special commission to assess whether the country needs to build new mosques and reopen some of the places of worship that had been ...

Some days ago, an exiled dissident from Tajikistan warned in a video appeal that he might be kidnapped and forcibly taken back to his home country.

It might be your birthday, but as a local Tajik celebrity was just reminded, Tajikistan can spoil the party. After video emerged of Firuza Hafizova celebrating her ...

An exiled dissident from Tajikistan reappeared mysteriously in his native country, claiming to have returned voluntarily. The awkward choreography around the ...

NEAR SHAYMAK, Tajikistan — Two miles above sea level in the inhospitable highlands of Central Asia, there's a new power watching over an old passage into ...

Tajikistan says it will take back Tajik women and children -- the family members of Islamic State fighters stranded in Syria and Iraq.

A newspaper has confirmed in new and extensive detail just how large China's security presence in Tajikistan truly is. But what is Beijing doing there?

The Central Asian republic depends on remittances from migrants for almost half of its GDP. Mountains cover 90 percent of the country's territory, and Tajikistan ...

On March 20, 2019 in one of the hotels of the Egyptian capital overlooking the eternal river Nile, the Embassy of Tajikistan hosted an official reception on the.

Tajikistan, one of Central Asia's poorest states, rarely breaks into the international new cycle. This summer, as a car attack claimed by the Islamic State killed four ...

It took more than 40 years, billions of dollars, and countless tons of concrete, but Tajikistan's Roghun hydropower plant is starting to deliver on a small part of its ...

We meet Tajik musicians holding on to their musical roots as they try to keep their centuries-old tradition alive.

The popular nickname for Tursunzoda, a town some 50 kilometers west of the capital city, is “grape capital of Tajikistan.” Even as one approaches by car, laden ...

Unease in Tajikistan's Pamir region appears to have spilled over into actual violence at the weekend after a prominent local police officer allegedly fired ...

Unemployment, alcoholism and violence against women are common problems for men.

Tajikistan's once thriving Jewish population has dwindled to an estimated 50 people. Most left for Israel in the 1990s to escape the country's civil war. But one ...

A botanist in remote Central Asia sustains his community with a litany of inventions.

At least five people have been killed in snow avalanches in Tajikistan this week, officials said.

When opposition activists from Tajikistan go online to speak, the internet suddenly stops working. Authorities go to extremes to make sure people do not hear the ...

Tajikistan's president has warned local officials in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region to bring order to the area, but that might be a tall order.

On July 29, five terrorists in Tajikistan rammed a car into a group of seven Western cyclists, then set upon them with knives. Four of the cyclists were killed: two ...

MOSCOW — A car ran down a group of touring cyclists in the Central Asian state of Tajikistan over the weekend, killing four people from the United States, the ...

Who better to represent a country's cultural history and legacy than its literary giants?

As the world marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, Tajikistan's government attracted unwanted ...

While Tajikistan says it has been able to control the situation, the UN drug agency accuses it of not doing enough.

ISLAMABAD: Overseas Pakistanis have so far contributed around over Rs 1.5 billion while local residents as well as institutions have donated some Rs 8.64 ...

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has asked the media to stop praising authorities so much and offer some criticism -- so that the government can avoid ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called a Russian military base in Tajikistan "an important factor for Tajikistan's security."

At least 25 inmates and two security officers have been killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in Tajikistan, three security sources said on Thursday.

Authorities have identified four cyclists who were killed while riding in Tajikistan in an attack that has been claimed by the IS terror group. The victims had all kept ...

Tajikistan's authorities are still stonewalling over the prison riot in November in which dozens are believed to have died. But they are using the media to double ...

It's likely to never be clear, but claims by the Islamic State to be behind the riot make the question critical.

March 25 – The surge in support for AFC President Shaikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa for his re-election campaign to the Asian Football Confederation ...

Tajikistan is a dry and mountainous country where agroforestry is increasingly stabilizing soils degraded by decades of overgrazing, while growing food and ...

Tajikistan appears set for a military operation in its restive eastern region – and that could soon attract the attentions of Russia and China.

For 22 years, Rano Mahmurodova was violently abused by her husband. A groundbreaking new project changed everything.

A Tajik court this week hears the appeal of independent journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov. Verdicts are rarely overturned in Tajikistan, but Mirsaidov's case has ...

The army was sent in after protests broke out in September about neglect and intimidation by the predominantly Sunni Muslim government.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon inaugurated a new $3.9 billion mega-dam on November 16. He hopes it will solve the Central Asian country's energy needs ...

With Tajiks and the international community eager to learn more about possible motives in the Islamic State-claimed attack that killed four foreigners, officials in ...