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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chief Executive Officer of the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group, Mr. Khaled Al-Aboodi, and the Chief Executive Officer of Kyrgyzstan’s Micro-Credit Company Mol Bulak Finance, Mr. Babyrzhan Tolbaev, signed a line of financing agreement for a USD 10 million facility in Istanbul, the ICD said on November 26. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — It has been no one less than Kazakhstan’s head of state and veteran politician Nursultan Nazarbayev who was lately quoted by Tass as stating that “the re-emergence of terrorist cells following the heavy blow dealt to Islamic State in the Middle East is a serious challenge for Eurasian states. […] International terrorism has acquired a catastrophic scope, it has no borders. Any part of the globe can become a target for a disastrous onslaught." Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan's northern Chui region say they have arrested the leader of a banned Islamic group, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — As separatist trends are getting stronger in the world, as in Spain’s Catalonia and Iraq’s Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, too, may face separatist threats, largely caused by the government’s internal economic policies. We are republishing this article by Paul Goble on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
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. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Greece should not extradite, deport or otherwise facilitate the return of a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan, where he faces possible torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said on October 12. Mirzorakhim Kuzov, a senior leader of outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), was detained on October 9 by Greek police at passport control in Athens International Airport as he was in transit after attending a human rights conference in Warsaw, Poland. Continue reading
