Tajik leaders discuss Afghan ties (UPI)
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, Jan. 26 (UPI) — The United Nations has increased efforts to improve cooperation between Afghanistan and neighboring Tajikistan to strengthen security and economic ties.
Turkmen leader orders ministers back to school (AP via Yahoo! News)
Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president has ordered members of his government to go back to school or lose their jobs.
Cash for kids (BBC News)
Desperate mothers in Tajikistan sell babies for $100
Tajikistan: Hoping to Reconnect to Turkmen Power Supplies (EurasiaNet)
Tajik officials are expected to travel to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent by the end of January in the hopes of finally working out a deal to allow the resumption of Turkmen electricity to Tajikistan.
Iran, Turkmenistan confer on gas projects (Zawya)
28 January 2009 Ashkhabad – Iranian and Turkmen officials held talks on Wednesday on gas field development projects in Turkmenistan.
Tajik Ban on Islamic Movement Raises Questions (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
Officials say Salafi movement poses national security threat, while Muslim clerics accuse it of being foreign-inspired. A high court ban on the Salafis, an Islamic fundamentalist movement, has been generally welcomed in Tajikistan, although it is unclear how the ruling can be enforced.
Iran to invest in Turkmenistan gas field development (Zawya)
28 January 2009 Ashkhabad – Iran will invest in the development of one of Turkmenistan’s gas fields, said director general of National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGEC). Speaking to IRNA Wednesday, Reza Kasaeizadeh said preliminaries for developing a Turkmen gas field had earlier been prepared.
Turkmen leader orders ministers back to school (The Charlotte Observer)
(The Associated Press) Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president has ordered members of his government to go back to school or lose their jobs. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said in televised remarks late Friday that officials are underqualified to implement the necessary reforms in the energy-rich Central Asian nation. He recently dismissed several ministers, reportedly over flaws in their …
Turkmen leader orders ministers back to school (KHQ Spokane)
Associated Press – January 31, 2009 5:13 AM ET ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) – Turkmenistan’s authoritarian president has ordered members of his government to go back to school or lose their…
