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Tadjik

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Noun1.Tadjik - a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of AfghanistanTadjik - a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
capital of Tajikistan, Dusanbe, Dushanbe, Dyushambe, Stalinabad - the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991
Asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
Communism Peak, Mount Communism, Mount Garmo, Stalin Peak - the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high)
Pamir Mountains, the Pamirs - a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China
Tadzhik, Tajik - a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China


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Parviz Mullojanov, director of the Public Committee for Democratic Process, a Tadjik NGO, says: "Hizb ut-Tahrir is a very radical movement, which many people believe has taken root in Uzbekistan and is spreading around the [GME] region from there".
It was from Afghanistan, then ruled by the Neo-Salafi Taliban, that bin Laden's suicide bombers killed that country's Tadjik war hero Ahmad Shah Mas'oud in an operation a few days before Qaeda's 9/11 attacks in the US in which 15 of the 19 Neo-Salafi hijackers/suicide bombers were Saudis.
Meanwhile, the Association of Tadjik Migrant Workers reported receiving over 6,000 calls for assistance this past December, while it recorded only about 1,800 such calls over the same period in 2007.
 
 
 
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