By Bruce Pannier The painful losses continue to mount up for the Pamiri people of eastern Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). Ever since May 2022, when the Tajik government crushed ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the ...

Thirty-five years ago this July, an avalanche killed forty-three climbers on a mountain called Lenin Peak. I witnessed the ...

1. 2. Tajikistan has telegraph poles, power lines and a few tea houses while the Afghan side only has mud houses./The Tajik side of the river is far more developed than the Afghan side.3. A4. D5.

Tajikistan, Uzbekistan discuss co-op in geology in Pamir mountains Tajikistan Materials 6 March 2025 13:34 (UTC +04:00) Photo: Main Department of Geology under the Government of Tajikistan ...

In 1929, the Soviet Union created the 'Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic' (Tajik SSR) on the Tajikistan side of the Corridor for Pamiris, whom the Soviet orientalists call the 'Mountain Tajiks'.

Tajikistan has placed its bets on Rogun, planned to become the most powerful hydropower plant in Central Asia. It is set to have the highest dam in the world at 335 metres (1,100 feet).

The Earthquake occurred in the Pamir Mountain range of Tajikistan, near the Garam Chashma hot springs. The earthquake occurred near the international border that Tajikistan shares with Afghanistan.

The M41, once a part of the ancient Silk Road, stretches over 1,200 km through the rugged Pamir Mountains. While its starting point is debated -- some say it starts from Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan ...

Researchers ventured into the “challenging-to-access Pamir Mountains” of Tajikistan in 2023 to survey wildlife, according to a study published July 12 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

The Pamir Mountains are a mountain range in Central Asia, at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Suleman, and Hindu Raj ranges. They are among the world's ...