Tajikistan

Security conditions along the border with Afghanistan remain volatile; Tajik border troops reportedly killed four suspected Islamic militants as they refused to surrender and opened fire first when confronted by Tajik personnel in Khatlon Province

The list of public officials required to declare income and assets was extended in an anticorruption effort, including employees of the National Bank, staff of state-owned financial institutions, officials working in Tajik embassies or government missions

Teen Foteh Azizov invented and launched Moni, Tajikistan’s first AI-powered legal assistant tool; noticing that legal language is complex and hard to understand, with support from a local law firm he developed a tool that explains the law in simple terms

Russian help is not needed in guarding Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, the country affirmed; cross-border attacks by armed militants killed five Chinese workers last month and information about the identity of the attackers hasn't been revealed

Pomegranate production, now covering 2.700 hectares and yielding 18.000 tons of produce, have been designated a priority subtropical crop under the national Horticulture, Viticulture, and Citrus Development Program 2025–2029 and a driver of ecotourism

Electricity export to Kunduz, Afghanistan, has been restored; after the transmission line was interrupted by the earthquake on 2 November technical teams were immediately deployed to assess the damage and begin restoration work

A forum opened in Dushanbe to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child; young leaders, government officials, UN representatives, development partners, civil society organisations discussed a shared vision for girls’ empowerment and leadership

New report shows how teachers are also often assigned to participate in cleanup campaigns, cotton harvesting, and mass public events; the prestige of the profession is declining, teaching becomes less profitable, and respect for educators is eroding

The State Symphony Orchestra of Tajikistan, together with the local orchestra "Kaiser-Walzer", held concert "In Praise of International Friendship" at the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, dedicated to the 34th anniversary of the State Independence Say of Tajikistan

Public organizations are invited to take part in a selection for the implementation of a project aimed at addressing gender-based violence through economical empowering of women and girls in the Vahdat district, with particular focus on refugees

Alif, a fintech operator, in partnership with Visa, launched a fee-free remittances system directly transferring money to Alipay and WeChat wallets in China, thus avoiding losses from double currency conversion from Somoni to US Dollars to Chinese yuan

1.647 people crossed from Tajikistan to Afghanistan through the Panji Poen–Sherkhon Bandar border from July 17 to August 10: 671 returned voluntarily to visit their relatives, while 976 people were forcibly deported according to According to the IOM

57,5 kilograms of opium and 960 grams of methamphetamine have been seized by Tajik authorities disrupting an attempt by an Afghan drug trafficking group to smuggle narcotics into the Tajikistan