Day: April 12, 2022

The BBC says the opposition coalition leader - who had worked to depose Mr. Imran Khan - won the support of a majority in parliament.

Shehbaz Sharif will now form a new government that can remain in place until elections are due in August 2023.

Mr. Khan, 69, was reportedly voted out after days of high political drama.

He had attempted to block a previous attempt to bring a no-confidence motion against him by dissolving parliament and calling for a snap election.

The country's Supreme Court, however, upheld an opposition petition that his actions were unconstitutional and ordered the no-confidence vote to go ahead.

Mr. Sharif, who was elected in parliament unopposed securing 174 votes, will be Pakistan's 23rd prime minister.

Al-Jazeera says no prime minister has ever completed a five-year term in office during the country’s nearly 75-year history.

The parliamentary vote was reportedly held under tight security, with nearly all roads leading to the National Assembly sealed.

Mr. Sharif comes from a family of industrialists which has become a political dynasty.

The 70-year-old Shehbaz Sharif was elected to the National Assembly in 2018 and headed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party after his elder brother was barred from holding public office for life after being found guilty of corruption.

Sharif reportedly comes from a family of industrialists which has become a political dynasty.

The 70-year-old Shehbaz Sharif was elected to the National Assembly in 2018 and headed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party after his elder brother was barred from holding public office for life after being found guilty of corruption.

Source: Asia-Plus

This year’s event will be the twelfth edition of the race. According to the Dushanbe mayor’s office, representatives of all regions of the country will participate in this race. Besides, athletes from Dushanbe’s sister cities have been invited to participate in the upcoming half-marathon.

The Dushanbe Development Fund has allocated 611,530 somonis for organization and support of this event.

The Dushanbe International Hal-Marathon is the main event to celebrate the Tajik Capital City Day. The Capital City Day is marked in Tajikistan on the third Saturday of April, and this year, it will be marked on April 16.

The first Dushanbe International Half-Marathon (21.097 kilometers) took place in April 2010 and athletes from 14 Dushanbe’s sister cities participated in that race.

In 2013, the Dushanbe half-marathon has been added to the calendar of games of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS)

Meanwhile, a number of cultural activities will be carried out in the Tajik capital on April 15 and 16.

Source: Asia-Plus

Kyrgyzstan's Border Guard Service says one person has been wounded in the latest shoot-out near a disputed segment of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.

Border guards from the two countries started shooting at each other on April 12 near the village of Maksat in the Leilek district after Tajik border guards "moved 20 meters inside Kyrgyz territory," the Kyrgyz Border Guard Service said.

"Kyrgyz border guards fired warning shots, but Tajik border guards then started shooting at the Kyrgyz border guards," the service said in a statement.

One border guard was hospitalized with serious injuries, and several villages in the Leilek district were evacuated, the Kyrgyz Border Guard Service said in a later statement on April 12.

It described the situation along the border as "tense" and said the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security "is taking all measures to stabilize the situation."

An RFE/RL correspondent reports from the Tajik side that two Tajik border guards were wounded in the incident.

Tajik officials have not confirmed the shoot-out, which took place just weeks after border guards from the two sides exchanged fire on March 10. No casualties were reported then.

In late January, clashes erupted along a segment of the two countries' poorly demarcated border in a standoff over a blocked road.

Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security said at the time that two civilians were killed and 10 other people -- six security force members and four civilians – were wounded.

Kyrgyz authorities said 12 Kyrgyz nationals were seriously wounded and more than 24,200 Kyrgyz citizens were evacuated from the area because of the fighting in January.

Almost half of the 970-kilometer Kyrgyz-Tajik border has yet to be demarcated, leading to repeated tensions since the two countries gained independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago.

Many border areas in Central Asia have been disputed since the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.

The situation is particularly complicated near the numerous exclaves in the volatile Ferghana Valley, where the borders of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan meet.

In April 2021, clashes involving military personnel along the Tajik-Kyrgyz border left dozens of people dead on both sides.

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On April 7 in Damascus, the Ambassador of Tajikistan to Syria Zubaydullo Zubaydzoda met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Migrants Affairs of the Syrian Arab Republic Faisal al-Mekdad.

The meeting focused on issues of expanding and strengthening bilateral relations in various fields, as well as cooperation within the framework of regional and international organizations.

Also, On April 8, Zubaydzoda met with the Syrian Minister of Internal Affairs Muhammad Khalid Rahmun.

The meeting focused on issues of strengthening bilateral cooperation in the fight against international terrorism, establishing interaction between relevant structures and exchanging experience.

The parties also exchanged views regarding the security situation in the region and the world.

Source: National information agency of Tajikistan

Today, as a result of operational-search activities, employees of the Department of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan for the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) detained the accused — a resident of Khorog Khurshedsho Sultonshoev, who earlier in 2010, was sentenced to 9 years in prison under Article 200 of the Criminal Code of Tajikistan for drug trafficking. This was reported by the Public Relations Center of the Department of the SCNS for GBAO.

“On April 12, as a result of operational-search activities, employees of the Department of the SCNS for GBAO detained the accused Sultonshoev Khurshedsho Mamadasankhonovich, born in 1984, a resident of Khorog, Khorogi bolo settlement, M. Ijubov street , who earlier in 2010, was convicted under article 200 of the Criminal Code for a term of 9 years in prison for drug trafficking, ” the statement read.

It is reported that during the detention operation, 1 unit of a combat grenade RGD-5, a certain amount of narcotic drugs, and ecstasy tablets were found and seized from the accused Sultonshoev.

On November 9, 2021, the Prosecutor’s Office for GBAO initiated criminal case No. 61178 against the accused under Art. 237 part 3 (hooliganism in a group), 328 part 1 (Use of violence against a representative of authority), 330 part 1 (insulting a representative of authority), the above-mentioned was put on the official wanted list.

On November 4, 2020, Sultonshoev along with three defendants officially put on the wanted list — Shabonov Jamshed Shokirdjonovich, Zikilobekov Sino Faizalibekovich and Aknazarov Aknazar Alinazarovich, in a Toyota car, state number 0005AA04, drove up to a permanent traffic police post in the village of Bidur, Shugnon district and rude verbal insulted the police officers who were on duty, after which they fled the scene.

Along with this, on April 6, 2020, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs initiated a criminal case No. 38555 under Art. 200 part 3 of the Criminal Code for involvement in the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale, the above-mentioned from February 24, 2021 was put on the official wanted list.

Earlier, Sultonshoev was officially summoned several times to appear before the investigator of the GBAO Prosecutor’s Office, but he deliberately avoided appearing and testifying.

Investigative measures are being continued in relation to the detained Sultonshoev.

Source: National information agency of Tajikistan