Alliance Resistance
The Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan appear determined to thwart the Taleban
21 Feb 05
Uzbekistan
New Taleban Agenda
The authorities in Islamabad appear to have found a new use for the Taleban
21 Feb 05
Uzbek Education Fiasco
Uzbek schools are in chaos following a ban on Soviet era textbooks.
21 Feb 05
Uzbek Child Labour Scandal
Tens of thousands of Uzbek children are being used as cheap labour in the country's cotton harvest
21 Feb 05
Uzbeks Get Accustomed to Alcoholism
Attempts to curb prodigious consumption of alcohol in Uzbekistan are it seems doomed to fail
21 Feb 05
Nameless Kyrgyz Enemy
Kyrgyz wonder who they're fighting in the war-torn Batken region of the country
21 Feb 05
Uzbek Forces on War Footing
Southern Uzbekistan is on full military alert, as the country's armed forces prepare for war in Afghanistan
21 Feb 05
CIS Refuses to Fight Taleban
Countries neighbouring Afghanistan refuse to participate directly in US-led military strike against the Kabul regime.
21 Feb 05
Taleban Buttress Northern Defences
Mullah Omar has reinforced his positions in the north of Afghanistan in readiness for expected US-led strikes.
21 Feb 05
Learning Afghan Lessons
Uzbek veterans of the Soviet Afghan conflict say the US and its allies are in for a long, hard war.
21 Feb 05
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