Initially Tajikistan was founded as an autonomous region: the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in 1924. In 1929, it was upgraded ...

Two years later, he was promoted to chairman of the Tajik SSR’s State Planning Committee, or Gosplan, a position he occupied for 19 years. From 1965, he simultaneously acted as deputy chairman of ...

Stalin's Divide And Rule The maps of the early 1920s show the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic as incorporating Vorukh within its borders. But the maps of the 1950s show Vorukh as an exclave within ...

“Life in the Tajik SSR in 1985 was good – and was getting better,” Scarborough writes. Prior to perestroika the Tajik SSR was “a sleepy Soviet backwater” with a reputation in Moscow of ...

The main themes of this exposition were border control and agriculture. The Tajik SSR pavilion was one of the smallest. It was wooden with beautiful national carvings and statues. The building ...

Tehreek-e-Azaadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK), which India claims to be a front for Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), has been banned by Pakistan after India raised the issue at the Financial ...

The Mumbai attack mastermind had indicated about a week before his arrest that he might launch Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK) to “expedite the freedom of Kashmir”. It shows that Saeed ...