The aim was clear: gaining control of GBAO would give the Tajik administration full control of the illicit trade along the country’s section of the Pamir Highway, a 1,200km road that runs ...

FAIZABAD - Residents of the Pamir mountains in northeastern Badakhshan province complain about their poor livelihood situation and ask the government. Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT.

With reports of dozens killed as well as hundreds injured and detained in recent weeks, the Tajik government tried to settle a long-standing conflict in its Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast ...

In the Pamir region, which makes up 45 percent of Tajikistan’s territory but only about 3 percent of its population, conflict between the central government and former opposition commanders has ...

A century of isolation in the panhandle of Badakhshan Province has insulated the Pamir Kyrgyz from the decades of war that have ravaged Afghanistan. But life there can be as harsh as the winter winds.

Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan region has long enjoyed uneasy relations with central authorities. An influential think tank warns unease could tip into violence if those ties are mishandled.

At least 21 people have died due to a "mysterious disease" in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. The disease spread in the Wakhan area of the mountainous Pamir region, where ...

Located high up in the picturesque mountains of Tajikistan, along the border with China and Afghanistan, the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, has remained without much contact with the ...

At least nine Tajik soldiers have been killed and 20 wounded in an operation against a local warlord in Tajikistan's eastern Badakhshan province, local media are reporting.An unspecified number of ...

Joe Hill, The Role of Authority in the Collective Management of Hill Irrigation Systems in the Alai (Kyrgyzstan) and Pamir (Tajikistan), Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 3, Water ...

Farzad Hafizi, another environmental expert in Badakhshan, is urging the Afghan government and international organization to take immediate measures to halt the glacial melt. “Our people have vivid ...

01/27/2014 January 27, 2014. High up in the Pamir Mountains, surrounded by peaks as high as 6000 meters, lies Khorugh. Khorugh is the capital of Gorno-Badakhshan, an autonomous province within ...