Davlatmirov was the khalifa of Turchid district in Khorog, GBAO’s capital. Khorog, capital of Tajikistan's remote region of GBAO (Credit: GBAO Administration Press Service). A khalifa is a cleric or ...

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 gunshots at a group of local people. Subhon ...

Khorog, the town where Global Voices community member Alexander Sodiqov was wrongfully arrested and detained for conducting academic research, is a faraway place. Khorog is faraway because it is ...

It took only a few hours to travel the highway’s westernmost 375 miles from Dushanbe to Khorog. But when Tajikistan achieved independence in 1991, in the wake of the Soviet collapse, there was ...

Today is the one-year anniversary of the controversial military operation in Khorog, Tajikistan, and human rights groups took the occasion to present to the government a report they have prepared on ...

The Tajikistan authorities should immediately restore full internet connectivity in the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO), Human Rights Watch said today. Internet access was cut on ...

Read more: Deadly clashes erupt in Tajikistan. Residents of Khorog, the capital of the province of Gorno-Badakhshan, awakened Tuesday to helicopters carrying government forces and flying low over ...

There has been some international criticism of the crackdown that followed the Khorog protests in 2022, including by the EU delegation in Tajikistan during the annual human rights dialogue in ...

Last year, U.S.-trained forces in Tajikistan attacked the town of Khorog. But townspeople fought back, and they're ready to do it again. By Joshua Kucera. June 28, 2013. Share. Save.

Tajikistan has stepped up its offensive against the Gorno-Badakhshan region. ... Khorog, the capital of GBAO, had one of the most vibrant and independent civil societies in Central Asia.