Sep
04

Central Asian News Update – Tajik Security Chiefs Fired After Jailbreak

Tajik Security Chiefs Fired After Jailbreak
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Tajikistan’s president fired almost the entire leadership of his security services Thursday as the first of 25 Islamist militants was recaptured more than a week after an armed jailbreak in the country.

Mongolia, Japan vow to boost partnership
Mongolia hopes to move its comprehensive partnership with Japan to a new level, said Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj on Monday.

Kyrgyzstan: OSCEmission should come after October election
Vienna – A planned international observer mission to Kyrgyzstan should be postponed until after the October elections, a senior diplomat from the troubled Central Asian country said Thursday in the Austrian capital Vienna.

Suicide blast kills Tajik policeman, wounds 25
A suicide car bomb blast tore through police offices in Tajikistan’s second-largest city Friday, killing one policeman and injuring 25 people, local officials said.

Tajik police station car bomb injures 25
A car packed with explosives rammed into a police station in northern Tajikistan, leaving at least 25 people injured.

Terrorist attack in Tajikistan killed two policemen, injured 26
KHUJAND, Tajikistan, September 4 (Itar-Tass) — The terrorist attack committed in the city of Khujand against the Tajik Interior Ministry’s regional department combating organised crime killed two members of the department’s personnel — 22-year-old Alidzhon Mayekubov who underwent job training and 34-year-old Ayubdzhon Makhkamov, a senior police lieutenant, the Sogdi regional interior affairs …

Kyrgyzstan: Ensure Safety, Fair Trial for Rights Defender
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Kyrgyz government should ensure that Azimjon Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek human rights defender arrested in connection with the June violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, is given a fair and …

Suicide Car Bomber Hits Tajik Police Station
KHUJAND, Tajikistan — Officials say a suicide car-bomb attack at a police station in the northern Tajik city of Khujand has killed at least one policeman and injured some 25 other people.

Mongolian Mining targets $700mln in HK IPO-term sheet
* Mongolian Mining shares expected to price on Sept. 24

China: Another Traffic Jam on the Jingzang Highway
Yet another gargantuan traffic jam has gripped the freeway that links Inner Mongolia’s coal fields to metropolitan Beijing, possibly exceeding a blockage that drew global attention last month.