Resettling an entire ethnic group in another country is a monumental task fraught with legal, political, and logistical complications. But that’s what Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov wants to do with 1 ...

(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) FAIZABAD - Residents of the Pamir mountains in northeastern Badakhshan province complain about their poor livelihood situation and ask the government to respond to ...

Watch a short excerpt on music and dance in the Pamir Mountains from the 24-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for 'Music of Central Asia Vol. 5: The Badakhshan Ensemble: Song and Dance ...

One in four Tajik citizens lives and works in Russia. Ksenia Diodorova, a graphic designer from St. Petersburg, spent part of the past winter photographing families living high up in the Pamir ...

Yodgor Fayzov has just been named head of Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region in what appears to be the government's latest attempt to increase control over an area that arguably ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 3, Water Governance in Mountains (Aug 2013), pp. 294-304 (11 pages) In the high mountain valleys of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, gravity-flow irrigation ...

(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): A delegation from the Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs has inspected official borders and the Durand Line in the three districts of northeastern ...

The Badakhshan Ensemble takes its name from the mountainous region — poetically known in Persian as Bam-i Dunya, the "Roof of the World" — that comprises the sparsely populated eastern half of ...

Mudflows and flooding triggered by an ice melt in the central Asian country of Tajikistan have displaced more than 600 people, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Rising ...

IT’S a terrifying route where drug smuggling, danger and corruption is rife. But as one traveller discovered, this mysterious place hides some incredible sights. If it’s unexpected, it can be a ...

No major damages or injuries are expected in the 6.8 strong earthquake in a remote region of Tajikistan Thursday morning. A strong 6.8 earthquake was measured at 12.37 am GMT in Tajikistan in the ...

Mainstream media coverage of Tajikistan is patchy, puts emphasis on geopolitics, and is often limited to incidences of violence. For instance, in July 2018 a deadly, Islamic State-inspired attack on ...