Tajiks
Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک, Tājīk; Tajik: Тоҷик) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second largest in Afghanistan which constitutes over half of the global Tajik population. They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan, the Pamiris are counted as a separate …
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FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 25 November 2024 English
made his trip to Kabul, ISK increased its recruiting propaganda in the Tajik language, targeting Tajiks in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. There are also the militants of Jamaat Ansarullah, a terrorist group …
recruiting propaganda in the Tajik language, targeting Tajiks in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. There are also the … years. Rahmon has mentioned the plight of ethnic Tajiks in Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 19 November 2024 English
Concerns about Islamic extremism are rising in Central Asia. None of the governments in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan are commenting publicly about any specific threats. Still, there is …
fighting in Afghanistan’s Herat and Zabul provinces), Tajiks gradually took over the other IMU faction that … or ISK.25 This incident was notable in that the Tajiks who were planning or carried out terrorist attacks … State in Afghanistan Looks to Recruit Regional Tajiks, Inflict Violence Against Tajikistan,” The Diplomat … tate-in-afghanistan-looks-to-recruit- regional-tajiks-inflict-violence-against-tajikistan 3 “The media … uz/ru/2023/07/06/germany 22 Bruce Pannier, “Rising prominence of Tajiks in terrorist attacks abroad may reflect loss of …
EU: European Union · 12 November 2024 English
C. whereas minorities, such as the Hazaras and Tajiks, face growing repression and discrimination; 1 …
World Bank Group · 6 November 2024 English
The Tajikistan Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) explores the impact of climate change and global decarbonization on Tajikistan’s development. It identifies key areas to enhance climate resilience and deepen …
critical to the livelihoods of the majority of Tajiks. Air pollution is rife, with Dushanbe’s measure …
World Bank Group · 1 November 2024 English
The Tajikistan Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) explores the impact of climate change and global decarbonization on Tajikistan's development. It identifies key areas to enhance climate resilience and deepen …
critical to the livelihoods of the majority of Tajiks. Air pollution is rife, with Dushanbe’s measure …
UN: The United Nations · 11 October 2024 English
24 p.Transmits report of the Special Rapporteur, Mariana Katzarova (A/HRC/54/54), pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 54/23.
Foreigners, migrants and asylum-seekers 86 Tajiks were accused of carrying out the terrorist attack … harassment and deportations of migrants, particularly Tajiks and others from Central Asia. Nationalist vigilante …
MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 25 September 2024 English
TAJIKISTAN 3 Language In line with the Constitution of Tajikistan, Tajik is the among 29 per cent of Tajiks, 10 per cent of Uzbeks, 11.4 state language and Russian is recognized as the language of per cent …
infrastructure (Juma 2019; Bukhari-Zade 2015). Tajiks who make up 86.1 per cent of the population. The … as well as in Pamiri minority is categorized as Tajiks, a designation the the capital city of Dushanbe … the Uzbek minority while reinforcing the size of Tajiks; moreover, the census There is no procedure for … recognition. First is the inclusion recorded as Tajiks, despite their unwillingness to be or exclusion … communities, e.g., Bulgarians. forcefully recognized as Tajiks. Nevertheless, Yaghnobis are absent from the census …
AAN_AF: Afghanistan Analysts Network · 20 September 2024 English
therefore, been marked by the need to balance the sway of the two main local constituencies, Uzbeks and Tajiks (both about the same size), with their respective ethnic elites entrenched from at least the Republic …
non-Pashtun groups (Uzbeks and Tajiks in Takhar and parts of Badakhshan, Tajiks in most of Badakhshan, Panjshir … population is largely split between Uzbeks and Tajiks. Tajiks make up a more homogenous population in the … communities opposed the hegemony of the Jamiati Tajiks from the central areas of the province;6 they might … of the two main local constituencies, Uzbeks and Tajiks (both about the same size), with their respective … appointments, offering local prominence to Uzbeks and Tajiks ‘by turns’ has so far not resulted in major defections …
Wilson Center Canada · 18 September 2024 English
The conditions the possibility that the KGB arranged the pogroms of the deportation were deplorable: people were to show the Uzbek authorities that the locals could moved by trucks and …
discrimination makes them religious minorities like Tajiks, but at least they have especially vulnerable. …
Amnesty International · 11 September 2024 English
the Shia Ismaili branch of Islam. Denied official recognition as a minority and regarded as ethnic Tajiks by the central authorities, Pamiris face systemic discrimination, suppression of cultural and religious …
recognition as a minority and regarded as ethnic Tajiks by the central authorities, Pamiris face systemic …