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OSCE supports Tajikistan’s Inter-Agency Secretariat for Border Management and Security

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and representatives from 16 government agencies participated in the official opening of the Inter-Agency Secretariat for Border Management and Security of Tajikistan on 12 September. Continue reading

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Afghanistan and Pakistani support of militants addressed at China summit of BRICS

BISHKEK (TCA) — At a summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen on September 4, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which comprise the BRICS grouping of the world's leading emerging economies, issued a statement that for the first time named Pakistan-based militant groups “regional security concern”. We are republishing the following article by James M. Dorsey* on the issue, originally entitled ‘BRICS potentially strengthens Trump’s hand in tackling Pakistani support of militants’: Continue reading

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BRICS member countries name Pakistan-based groups as security concern

BISHKEK (TCA) — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, which comprise the BRICS grouping of the world's leading emerging economies, at a summit in the Chinese city of Xiamen on September 4 called for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan and issued a statement that includes for the first time Pakistan-based militant groups as a regional security concern, RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal reports. Continue reading

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Afghanistan and the new US strategy between guns, drugs and conspiracies

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Known as the battleground of the USA’s “longest war”, America seems committed to keep its foothold in the war-torn Central Asian state for an indefinite number of years to come, and to send even more troops in to strengthen its grip on the turbulent country and its population. Continue reading

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Kyrgyzstan’s security forces kill two terror suspects

BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan say that security forces have killed two suspected militants who planned a terrorist act in the capital Bishkek and northern Chui province on the eve of the country’s Independence Day celebrated on August 31. Continue reading

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Minister comments on Muslim clothing in Kazakhstan

ASTANA (TCA) — Minister of Religious Affairs and Civil Society Nurlan Yermekbayev at a press conference on August 28 commented on the situation with the ban on wearing clothes of “destructive ideological” movements in Kazakhstan, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading