Tajikistan News

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 9 / Trend News M.Aliyev /

Azerbaijani Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev left for Dushanbe to attend a meeting of the CIS defense ministers, the Ministry told Trend News on Nov.9.

Some 70% of Tajikistan was left without electricity on Monday as the country's Nurek-Regar hydropower plant shut down, a power holding spokesman said, RIA Novosti reported.

After months of turbulence in relations with Russia, the Tajik leader seems to have smoothed things over and gained significant concessions.

Not so long ago, entrepreneurs opening businesses in Tajikistan would routinely complain of visits by government inspectors from myriad state agencies, each with a discerning eye for anything amiss and a voracious appetite for somoni, the local currency.

Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon has signed an amnesty measure granting freedom to some 10,000 prisoners, according to reports reaching here from Dushanbe.

When it comes to the use of child labor to help bring in Tajikistan's cotton crop, the government's heart may be in the right place.

Tajik security services seized 28 persons suspected of membership in international terrorist organizations this year, National Security Committee deputy head Abdullo Nazarov said on Monday, Interfax reported.

An IWPR report on how the authorities are targeting an Islamic missionary group they regard as subversive was praised for offering insights and opinions that questioned whether a hard-line approach is always the right one.

A delegation from the UAE, led by Juma Al Majid, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture '&' Heritage, visited Tajikistan on 20-25 October.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's talks with Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev near Moscow have produced no significant results, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Tajikistan Monday for top-level talks with the government in Dushanbe, US and Tajik officials said.

Russia plans to build three small hydropower plants in Tajikistan and hopes to obtain a controlling stake in the project, the Russian energy minister said Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.

Azerbaijan, Baku, October 24 / Trend news V. Zhavoronkova /

None of the countries interested in Tajikistan, will assist Dushanbe as much as Russia, Russian expert on Central Asia, Leonid Gusev, said.

The flow of Afghan refugees to Tajikistan could grow, the United Nations refugee agency representative in the Central Asian country said on Friday, calling on Dushanbe to continue to help those in need.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 23 / Trend News E.Ostapenko /

Russia has probably found arguments to persuade Tajik President Emomali Rahmon of the importance of Russia's base in the Central Asian republics for its security, European expert on Russia's interests in the Central Asia Igor Torbakov believes.

Around 560 kilograms of drugs, including 140 kilograms of heroin, were destroyed on Friday by narcotics officers in Tajikistan, the deputy director of the country's Drug Control Agency said, RIA Novosti reported.

Friday, October 23, 2009 Islamabad The incident of firing on army jeep in which two army personnel were killed here on Thursday has been widely condemned.

Five months after mudslides completely destroyed her home in Uyali village in Tajikistan's southern district of Khuroson, Momogul Sharipova, in her 60s, moved to a brand new government-built house, but there is a major problem: it has no toilet.

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Four members of a militant Islamist group have been killed in a shootout with police in Tajikistan, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Monday.