Kazakhstan provides military support to Tajikistan to help with border defenses against its neighboring country, Afghanistan. They will provide weapons, ammunition, and manpower to strengthen the border and hopefully prevent any further attacks on Tajikistan. Deputy Defense Minister Talgat Mukhtarov said that the support of military materiel would not hurt Kazakhstan’s defense capabilities. Tajikistan is one of the smallest countries… Read more »
Kazakhstan will provide military aid to Tajikistan to help bolster border defenses in the face of mounting security concerns in neighboring Afghanistan. The upper house of parliament on April 11 approved the transfer of equipment, ammunition, air weapons, artillery and protective gear against radiation and biological weapons. The transfer is subject to final approval by the president. An agreement on… Read more »
City hall in the capital of Kazakhstan has announced that a project to build a congestion-busting light railway transit system has been put on hold for the foreseeable future. National Economy Minister Ruslan Dalenov said on April 17 that the postponement follows a holdup in the supply of credit from China’s State Development Bank. The news will dismay many citizens of what… Read more »
Armenia has for the first time not voted against a Georgian resolution at the United Nations about the right of return of displaced people, an apparent gesture on Yerevan’s part toward better relations with Tbilisi. On June 4, the United Nations General Assembly passed a non-binding resolutionreaffirming the rights of Georgians displaced from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to return to their… Read more »
The Azerbaijani government has made the reaching of religion mandatory to avoid radicalism in the country. The main religion that the students at this university would be the teachings of Islam however, other religions would be taught if certain students requested to learn about them. 97% of Azerbaijanians identify as Muslim however, few of them rarely practice it. This new… Read more »
New Delhi: The security cover of Home Minister Amit Shah has been strengthened with the Delhi Police putting in place additional component of security personnel at his residence, officials said on Friday. The move came after Shah assumed charge of the sensitive ministry last week. The Delhi Police has reviewed the security of the home minister and moved additional component to… Read more »
Peaceful anti-government demonstrations in a few major cities in Kazakhstan culminated on May 1 with detentions and isolated cases of aggressive crowd-control tactics by the police. Many hundreds of people came onto the streets in cities like Almaty and Nur-Sultan to voice their generalized discontent, braving the draconian rules imposed by the authorities against unauthorized political gatherings. “Let’s unite! We… Read more »
The Azerbaijani government plans to introduce mandatory religious education into the university curriculum in an apparent attempt to fight radicalism in the country. At the end of April, Mubariz Gurbanli, the chairman of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations, announced that starting in 2020 university students will take a class dedicated to Islam and other religions. At a meeting at… Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – The head of the Afghan Taliban pledged on Saturday to continue fighting until the movement’s objectives were reached and indicated it was still not ready to open talks with the Western-backed government in Kabul. In his annual message ahead of next week’s Eid al-Fitr holiday, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada sought to reassure Afghans that the Taliban wanted an… Read more »
KABUL (Reuters) – A magnetic bomb blew up a bus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10 in a ball of flame, officials said. The explosion, the latest in a series of bomb blasts to hit Kabul in recent days, came with the city under tight security ahead of this… Read more »