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 ...

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.

Amangul Wapik (R) and her brother prepare milk tea for guests in Sarijilga village of Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, March 21, 2025.

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 JOINT expedition to the Pamir was organised last year by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft, consisting of eleven German members and about thirty ...

This permit, known as the GBAO (Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast), is obtainable either from Osh, in Kyrgyzstan or from Dushanbe, in Tajikistan. The bike being used and the harsh terrain.

If it’s unexpected, it can be a nerve-racking experience at the best of times. If you’re standing in the middle of the Wakhan Valley, on the edge of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, with ...

FOR this useful addition to our knowledge of the Pamir plateau we are indebted to the enlightened policy of the Government of India, who, in attaching Mr. Alcock as naturalist to the Commission ...

Guide To The Pamir Highway Road Trip: Our journey began with the dream of exploring Central Asia in a motorhome, but time constraints and border challenges reshaped our plans.