DUSHANBE, August 2, 2013, Asia-Plus – The Social-Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) has launched its website http://hsdtaj.org/tj/ .

SDPT leader Rahmatillo Zoirov says the website will acquaint citizens with the party program and ideas of the party candidate for presidency.

The SDPT website will function in two languages – Tajik and Russian.

Founded in 2002, the Social-Democratic Party was registered on December 20, 2002.  It was originally registered as the Party of Justice and Development in 1999.  Tajikistan''s Ministry of Justice requested the same year that the Supreme Court ban the party''s activities and its registration was canceled.  The party re-emerged and was registered under the name of the Social-Democratic Party in late 2002.  The party was renamed the National Social-Democratic Party on December 4, 2011.

Chairman of the Nationals Social-Democratic Party is Rahmatillo Zoirov and the party reportedly has 7,700 members.