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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s authorities have launched an “unrelenting assault” against lawyers, particularly those defending government critics, RFE/RL reports citing Amnesty International.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani last week inaugurated the construction of the Dar-i-Suf to Yakawlang road in the country’s Bamyan province. The road will boost Afghanistan’s transport network, widen economic and social opportunities, and connect remote areas to the country’s center, the ADB country office in Afghanistan said.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Following the recent summit in China about the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, new plans are emerging showing a clear discomfort from several countries and some popular opposition from various local communities in countries involved in the Chinese plan. If stability and security remain the pre-condition for a successful implementation of any project the present situation of conflict and competition toward OBOR does not augur well (see One Belt, One Road: A plan for Chinese dominance and authoritarianism, TCA, 20 May 2017).
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has so far built the most friendly and close relations with next-door neighbor Turkmenistan, with other Central Asian neighbors also mending ties with Tashkent in various spheres. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Sharing the waters of trans-boundary rivers is an old problem in Central Asia and now such a conflict is brewing between Iran and Afghanistan over the Kamal Khan Dam project in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province that borders Iran.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Seven new free economic zones in Uzbekistan will specialize in growing medicinal plant feedstock for the country’s pharmaceutical industry, the Jahon information agency reported.
