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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EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 25 June 2024 English

As part of the wider Indo-Pacific, South Asia has vital geostrategic importance for the EU, facing significant challenges to the rules-based international order. The Indo-Pacific is rapidly evolving and becoming …

which they are familiar and the ethnic minority Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras do not wish to be governed


World Bank Group · 24 June 2024 English

This report provides a high-level assessment of Uzbekistan's water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting where efforts should …

while other minority groups include Russians, Tajiks, Kazakhs, and Tatars, reflecting the country's


World Bank Group · 24 June 2024 English

This report provides a high-level assessment of Tajikistan's water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting where efforts should …

the population (roughly 80%) comprises ethnic Tajiks, while Uzbeks, Russians, and Kyrgyz constitute


World Bank Group · 24 June 2024 English

This report provides a high-level assessment of the Kyrgyz Republic's water security status across different water security dimensions (endowment, sector architecture, performance and outcomes) with the aim of highlighting where …

Russians at 5.5% (Chotaeva, 2021). Dungans, Uighurs, Tajiks, Turks, Kazakhs, Tatars, Koreans and other ethnicities


EU: European Union · 17 June 2024 English

The “EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law” is based on a selection of cases from the EUAA Case Law Database, which contains summaries of decisions and judgments related to …

to describe the situation of Shia minorities, Tajiks and westernised individuals in Afghanistan.


ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 13 June 2024 English

The past half a decade has been tumultuous. A continuing global recovery from the pandemic. Geopolitical flashpoints such as wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The US left Afghanistan in 2021 …

cadre base is ethnically diverse, ranging from Tajiks and Uzbeks to Uyghurs and Pashtuns. A few Indians


World Bank Group · 4 June 2024 English

communities. The main population is comprised of Tajiks and Uzbeks, also Russians and Tatars, and Afghans


EU: European Union · 22 May 2024 English

The country guidance documents provide country-specific common analysis and guidance in relation to the assessment criteria established in the recast Qualification Directive (Directive 2011/95/EU). They are developed by the EUAA …

.................................. 68 3.14.5. Tajiks .............................................. of Hazara ethnicity and other Shias • 3.14.5. Tajiks • 3.16. Children • 3.18.1. Individuals involved Tajikistan, and most of the group’s members are ethnic Tajiks. Based on its own account, NRF emerged in Panjshir an ethnic dimension to the targeting and ethnic Tajiks as prone to violations, also in Kabul City, while against members of ethnic minority groups, including Tajiks [Country Focus 2023, 4.3.1., p. 66; Targeting


ISW: Institute for the Study of War · 1 May 2024 English

Russian forces will likely continue to make tactical gains in the Avdiivka direction in the coming weeks, and Ukrainian commanders may decide to conduct additional withdrawals if Russian forces threaten …

migrants entering and living in Russia, particularly Tajiks, after the Crocus City Hall attack since the majority


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 1 May 2024 English

— ANI Patrushev in April 2024 on the side-lines of the On 2 and 3rd April 2024, Astana played host to the 19th meeting of the Shanghai XII International Meeting …

pro-ISIS online media outlet Al Azaim High number of Tajiks in ISIS-K Foundation has threatened to attack soccer Champions League More than 50% of ISKP recruits are Tajiks. There — European soccer's biggest club competition


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