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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on October 15 that the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline which is being built in Turkmenistan is expected to reach the Afghan border in Herat by January, TOLOnews agency reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Officials from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, and the United States — members of the four-nation Quadrilateral Coordination Group — met in Oman on October 16 to try to find ways of reviving Afghanistan peace talks with the Taliban, RFE/RL’s Afghan Service reported.
LONDON (TCA) — It is a warm, sunny and lazy Sunday afternoon in the Kyrgyz capital and all is quiet. The ominous spectre of mass demonstrations, burning vehicles, charging security forces and shootouts invoked by western “revolution manufacturers” and mass media parroting them is as remote as remote could ever be. Kyrgyz people go or do not go to vote, with both categories expressing a pragmatic approach to politics: let things go on as they do, let leaders govern and leave business to the population. This overall attitude explains why hardly more than half of the voters bothered to vote in the first place.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Speaking at a news conference on October 16, Omurbek Babanov, the main rival of Sooronbai Jeenbekov, the winning candidate in the October 15 presidential election in Kyrgyzstan, said the voting was marred by violations but suggested he would not mount a challenge of the official result, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new report published by the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank Group has demonstrated that Islamic social finance comprising zakah, waqf, and not-for-profit microfinance is attracting increasing interest in Central Asia countries, the Balkans, and the Russian Federation.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Ten hotels and tour operators from Kyrgyzstan promoted their services at the 23rd Tashkent International Tourism Fair from October 3-5. The trip was organized with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A Kyrgyz yurt, traditional music, and a handicrafts exhibition allowed visitors to get a glimpse of Kyrgyzstan as a tourism destination. The delegation met with hundreds of Uzbekistani tour operators and signed 141 partnership agreements, the US Embassy in Bishkek said.
