Tajikistan

Afghanistan: Durand Line Controversy Set to Resurface

The resolution of the longstanding frontier dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan is key to a rapprochement between the two countries.

22 Feb 05

Residents of rural areas remain at the mercy of thousands of wartime mines, which the government cannot afford to remove.

22 Feb 05

Russian move against Muslim radicals seen as overture towards Uzbekistan.

22 Feb 05

Upcoming curbs on advertising could finish off many independent papers.

22 Feb 05

Impoverished doctors have been charging patients for medicines and services that should be free.

22 Feb 05

Itinerant workers desperate for jobs in Russia find it hard to get past Uzbek border guards.

22 Feb 05

For once, arid regions of southern Kazakstan and Uzbekistan have more water than they can cope with.

22 Feb 05

There are fears the authorities could soon be handed a license to eavesdrop on their critics.

22 Feb 05

Cash crisis in health service so acute that specimens of anthrax are ferried to an infectious diseases laboratory by public transport.

22 Feb 05

Russia sends former interior minister back to uncertain fate in Tajikistan.

22 Feb 05

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