Tajkistan, Incidents

09:12, april 15, 2013

FBI may join search for missing Tajik girls

DUSHANBE, April 15, 2013, Asia-Plus -- The U.S.

16:47, april 13, 2013

4.7 earthquake reported in the lake Sarez area

DUSHANBE, April 13, 2013, Asia-Plus -- An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale was reported in the Lake Sarez area, Gorno Badakhshan.

14:09, april 8, 2013

Interior minister dissatisfied with ongoing search operation for missing cousins

A special investigation group has been ordered to carry out thorough search operation for missing Dushanbe cousins within a specific time period.

10:29, april 5, 2013

Police find no violations in Asia-Plus stringer’s actions

DUSHANBE, April 5, 2013, Asia-Plus – Investigators from the police station in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district have considered an application lodged by Mr.

13:42, april 4, 2013

Mild tremor jolts Tajik capital Thursday afternoon

DUSHANBE, April 4, 2013, Asia-Plus – A mild tremor measuring 3.0 on a 12-point scale jolted Dushanbe Thursday, at 11:31 am, according to the Dushanbe seismological station.

11:15, april 4, 2013

Police deny rumors that missing Dushanbe cousins were allegedly found dead

Tajik police have denied rumors that missing Dushanbe cousins have been found dead.

16:32, april 3, 2013

Application by chancellor of teachers’ training university still under consideration

The police station in Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district is still considering an application lodged by Mr.

11:10, april 2, 2013

Fifteen Tajik nationals detained in Rostov-on-Don on March 30 released

DUSHANBE, April 2, 2013, Asia-Plus -- Fifteen Tajik nationals that were arrested on suspicion of rape in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on March 30 have been released.

16:56, april 1, 2013

Asia-Plus stringer summoned to police following application by Abdujabbor Rahmonov

In his application lodged to the police station I Dushanbe’s Ismoili Somoni district, Abdujabbor Rahmonov, Chancellor of Tajik State Teachers’ Training University, asks to probe “the wrong and

14:43, april 1, 2013

Six killed, four injured in GBAO traffic accident

Six persons have been killed and at least four others have been injured in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) as UAZ-452 minivan has drifted from the road and rolled down into 150m deep

11:08, april 1, 2013

15 Tajik nationals detained in Rostov-on-Don

A number of Russian media outlets reported on March 31 that fifteen Tajik nationals have been arrested in Rostov-on-Don on suspicion of raping a woman from Ukraine.

10:39, april 1, 2013

Interior ministry offers reward for information about missing girls

DUSHANBE, April 1 2013, Asia-Plus – The Ministry of Interior offers a reward for information about two Dushanbe cousins – Malika Aralova, 6, and Sabina Aralova, 4 – who were reported missing on the

11:48, march 29, 2013

Interior minister takes search operation for two missing girls under his personal control

DUSHANBE, March 29, 2013, Asia-Plus – Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov has taken a search operation for two Dushanbe cousins – Malika Aralova, 6, and Sabina Aralova, 4 – who were reported missing

11:32, march 29, 2013

Dushanbe mayor orders to take effective measures to find missing girls

DUSHANBE, March 29, 2013, Asia-Plus -- Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev has ordered Dushanbe law enforcement authorities to take effective measures to find two missing cousins – the

11:15, march 28, 2013

Tajik student detained in Moscow on suspicion of mobile phone theft

Adim Shabozbekov, Tajik student at Moscow-based Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR), has been held in one of Moscow’s pretrial detention facilities for more than a month on suspicion that

09:25, march 28, 2013

Khatlon authorities deny involvement in disappearance

DUSHANBE, March 28, 2013, Asia-Plus -- Authorities in the southern Tajik province of Khatlon have denied involvement in the disappearance of an outspoken Uzbek community leader, Radio Liberty’s

16:25, march 23, 2013

Four killed in hostage-taking incident along Tajik-Afghan border

Three Afghan citizens and a Tajik man have been killed in a hostage-taking incident in the Tajik southern province of Khatlon.

10:49, march 20, 2013

Umarali Quvvatov reportedly disappears from Dubai pretrial detention facility

Qavvatov’s lawyer, Nikolai Nikolayev, claims that his client disappeared from the Dubai pretrial detention facility two days ago.

11:27, march 14, 2013

Young Tajik woman supposedly killed in fire in Balashikha

DUSHANBE, March 14, 2013, Asia-Plus -- A young Tajik woman was supposedly killed in a fire that broke out in the building materials marketplace, Abramtsevo, in Balashikha, Moscow oblast in

10:11, march 13, 2013

Surgut policemen make Muslims cut their beards

DUSHANBE, March 13, 2013, Asia-Plus – A group of Muslims have accused Surgut policemen of attacking visitors of the Halal teahouse, SurgutInformTV reported on March 12.

10:43, march 11, 2013

Tajik migrants attacked in Moscow

DUSHANBE, March 11, 2013, Asia-Plus -- Six labor migrants from Tajikistan have been attacked in Moscow.

14:43, march 4, 2013

One killed, one injured in Sughd traffic accident

KHUJAND, March 4, 2013, Asia-Plus -- One person was killed and it least one another was injured on March 3 as a car fell into a 300-meter precipice in the Ayni district, Sughd province,

09:44, march 1, 2013

Russian law enforcement authorities launch investigation into murder of Tajik teen in Moscow

DUSHANBE, March 1, 2013, Asia-Plus -- Russian law enforcement authorities have launched an investigation into the murder of Tajik teenager in Moscow.

17:28, february 28, 2013

Tajik Customs Service press secretary attacked

DUSHANBE, February 28, Asia-Plus -- Tajikistan''s Customs Service press secretary Abdurahim Umarov is being treated in a hospital after being severely beating, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports.

14:47, february 28, 2013

Customs Service spokesman beaten up in Dushanbe

DUSHANBE, February 28, 2013, Asia-Plus – Abdurahim Umarov, a spokesman for the Customs Service under the Government of Tajikistan, has been beaten up by unknown assailants in Dushanbe’s

16:13, february 20, 2013

SDPT deputy leader says he received threats by phone

Shokirjon Hakimov has attributed the threats to his active civil and political position.

14:11, february 20, 2013

Ukrainian nationals who were reportedly held hostage in Dushanbe return home

DUSHANBE, February 20, 2013, Asia-Plus – Three Ukrainian nationals, who were reportedly held hostage in Dushanbe, returned home on February 16.

11:06, february 20, 2013

Tajik journalist hospitalized with multiple stab wounds in Moscow

DUSHANBE, February 20, 2012, Asia-Plus -- Tajik journalist Bakhtiyor Sattori, former spokesman for Tajik migrations service agency’s office in Russia, was hospitalized yesterday night with

16:43, february 17, 2013

New details of the Dushanbe hostage-taking incident emerge

Relatives of Safarkhoja Partoyev, an ethnic Tajik who got the Kazakh citizenship in the 1990s, claim that certain forces want to make Partoyev the scapegoat for “the so-called hostage-taking incident.

15:02, february 15, 2013