FEB. 12 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The Uzbek authorities have unveiled a plan to build a 130km railway line over a mountain pass between Tashkent and their cities in the Ferghana Valley that will cut out the Soviet-built route through Tajikistan, media reported. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have an increasingly fractious relationship.
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(News report from Issue No. 124, published on Feb. 15 2013)
FEB. 5 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ukrainian police arrested ex-Tajik PM Abdumalik Abdullojonov in Kiev after he flew in from the US where he has been living since fleeing Tajikistan over a decade ago. The Tajik authorities have asked Ukraine to extradite Mr Abdullojonov. They accuse him of plotting to assassinate President Emomali Rakhmon.
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FEB. 5 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Ukrainian police arrested ex-Tajik PM Abdumalik Abdullojonov in Kiev after he flew in from the US where he has been living since fleeing Tajikistan over a decade ago. The Tajik authorities have asked Ukraine to extradite Mr Abdullojonov. They accuse him of plotting to assassinate President Emomali Rakhmon.
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JAN. 18 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Tajik security forces battled more militants linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which has ties to the Taliban, President Emomali Rakhmon told media. In the firefight in the north of the country, one IMU militant died and nine were arrested. There had also been a shoot-out with the IMU last week.
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JAN. 24 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Highlighting the institutionalised nature of the Afghanistan-Tajikistan drugs trade, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a story quoting US military officials accusing Kam air, the largest private Afghan airline, of ferrying opium between Kabul and Dushanbe. Kam Air denied the allegations.
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JAN. 24 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Highlighting the institutionalised nature of the Afghanistan-Tajikistan drugs trade, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a story quoting US military officials accusing Kam air, the largest private Afghan airline, of ferrying opium between Kabul and Dushanbe. Kam Air denied the allegations.
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JAN. 18 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Tajik security forces battled more militants linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which has ties to the Taliban, President Emomali Rakhmon told media. In the firefight in the north of the country, one IMU militant died and nine were arrested. There had also been a shoot-out with the IMU last week.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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JAN. 17 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Perhaps hinting that a new border dispute is looming, Tajik foreign minister, Hamrohon Zarifi, said he had requested Soviet-era documents from Russia that showed the demarcation of borders with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, media reported. The three countries dispute various borders in the Ferghana Valley.
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JAN. 11 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Tajikistan’s interior ministry said police had arrested three suspected members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IUM) after a shoot-out in the east of the country near the border with Uzbekistan, media reported. One policeman died in the shoot-out. The IMU is linked closely with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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(News report from Issue No. 120, published on Jan. 18 2013)