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28 April 2013 Kulma Pass open for tourists - confirmation from Tajik Border Guard commander and Khorog Tourist Office. 16 December 2012 † Yuri Khubonshoyev, pioneer of the Aga Khan Foundation's programme in the Pamirs - See here. 7 December 2012 - 14h Facebook banned in Tajikistan because of "slanderous" content about the President. More likely because Facebook was one of the only means of expressing outrage at the invasion of GBAO .... N.B. In the meantime the decision was reversed. See here and here. 6 December 2012 - 9h Delays at Dushanbe airport - another nonsensical obstacle to tourism in Tajikistan - see here. 6 December 2012 - 9h Good news: Tajikistan is not bottom of Transparency International's corruption index - with 22 points out of a maximum 100, Tajikistan ranks 154th out of 176, above Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - see here. 28 September 2012 - 14h Now I understand why Radio Free Europe/Ozodi is blocked in Tajikistan - see here. 7 October 2012 - 10h KHOROG CRISIS - NEWS UPDATE - Headlines: Excellent analytical article on Khorog crisis by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh - Bizarre official Tajik statements to OSCE conference in Warsaw - TojNews gives details of orders for website blocking - Head of Government Communications Service argues implausibly that the government had nothing to do with the blocking - President makes uncompromising public speech in Khorog - see here. 28 September 2012 - 14h Now I understand why Radio Free Europe/Ozodi is blocked in Tajikistan - see here. 25 September 2012 - 22h Tajik statements to OSCE conference in Warsaw: Muzaffar Ashurov, head of the department for the constitutional rights in the Executive Office of the President, accused media of "creating the conditions for the recurrence" of the events in Khorog. Nargis Zokirova, chairperson of the Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law of Tajikistan, noted that according to the data of the National Association of Independent Media of Tajikistan (Nansmit), the country’s communications service agency has restricted access to 15 news websites in recent months and called on the Government of Tajikistan to unblock them. The Asia-Plus representative noted that actions of the Tajik authorities on blocking news websites had caused criticism from the European Union, the OSCE, the United States and many other countries and international organizations. However, this had yielded no results - see here. 21 September 2012 - 17h One of the news agencies whose websites are currently blocked in Tajikistan says the measure is counter-productive and only strengthens opposition to the government on the eve of the presidential election - gives details of orders for the blocking - see here. Head of the Government Communications Service argues implausibly that the government had nothing to do with the site blocking - see here. 20 September 2012 - 9h Radio Ozodi article doubts Rahmon visit and uncompromising views he expressed in public meeting will defuse situation in Khorog - Were participants in meeting carefully selected to avoid criticism of President? - However, brave statement by Asia Plus reporter Ramzia Mirzobekova - see here. 20 September 2012 - 9h Asia Plus reports speech by Rahmon in Khorog criticising the work of law enforcement and security agencies, including judges: "If you had done your work professionally and diligently, the latest events in Khorog would not have happened" - see here. 18 September 2012 - 10h Radio Ozodi reports on President's visit to GBAO and quotes official sources that 70 people died in government invasion (of which 17 soldiers) the highest official figure released so far - see here. 15 September 2012 - 13h YouTube video exposes censored coverage of events in Khorog by Tajik TV - see here and, for a translation of accompanying text, here. 15 September 2012 - 13h Asia-Plus publishes "open letter" to President from GBAO residents - see here. 14 September 2012 - 19h Radio Ozodi publishes interview with Muhammadbokir Muhammadbokirov - see here. 14 September 2012 - 9h Substantive article in Asia-Plus confirms collapse of Tajik tourism due to government invasion of GBAO - see here. July 2012 New Section on the Afghan Wakhan - see here. March 2012 University of Central Asia publishes English-language selection of "Legends of the Pamirs" - see here. December 2011 Official Tajik Tourism Committee confirms that double-entry visas (essential if you plan to travel from Tajikistan to Afghanistan and back) can be obtained at Dushanbe airport. August 2011 Second edition of Odyssey guidebook TAJIKISTAN AND THE HIGH PAMIRS available from September 2011 - see here
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