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.

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 ...

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.

The president has tasked Sherali Kabir (left) with overseeing development in GBAO. (Tajik presidential administration) Sorbon Yunoev, a 60-year-old apple farmer in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan ...

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.

A memorial service in the northeastern province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan was targeted by a suicide bomber on Thursday, resulting in the deaths of at least 13 individuals.

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