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Two Tajik pilgrims, who headed off for Mecca by foot in May, have said they have been detained before entering Saudi Arabia.
Russian ground forces commander General Vladimir Churkin has the Ekho Moskvy radio station that a deal extending Russian forces' use of bases in Tajikistan would not be ready to sign until the first half of 2013.
Tajikistan's Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov says militants who give up their arms and cooperate with investigators will not face prosecution.
Relatives of an inmate who died this week in the central detention center in Dushanbe claim that 27-year-old Hamza Ikromzoda was tortured.
Tajikistan's president, Emomali Rahmon, has started a working visit to the country's restive eastern region of Gorno-Badakhshan, weeks after a special operation there by security forces left some 70 people dead.
About 50 local residents have blocked a highway connecting Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Osh with neighboring Tajikistan, in a protest over exports of gasoline the protesters say is needed in Kyrgyzstan.
Tajik customs officials say they are holding equipment from Iran that reportedly is meant for a joint Persian-language television project.
Visiting Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov was in Dushanbe on September 12 for a second straight day of talks with Tajik officials on the future of Russia's military bases in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced a former senior official at the Presidential Drugs Control Agency to 18 years in prison on charges of involvement in drugs smuggling.
Several thousand people have continued to occupy a central square in Tajikistan's eastern city of Khorugh, demanding that the government withdraw forces from the area and dismiss the region's top official.
Several thousand people have gathered in Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan region to protest the latest incident of bloodshed in the area.
Tajikistan's Defense Ministry has denied that recent deadly clashes are behind an order calling on all males aged between 18 and 45 years of age to report to military offices in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region.
Local authorities in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, have rewarded the country's only Olympic medalist, Mavzuna Chorieva, with a three-room apartment in the city.
Authorities have removed military checkpoints in the eastern Tajik town of Khorugh, the scene of recent deadly clashes between government troops and illegal armed groups.
Tajik authorities say that Tolib Ayombekov, head of a rebel group accused of killing a high-ranking security official, has surrendered to the authorities in the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Province.
Prosecutors have asked Tajikistan's Supreme Court to sentence a former senior official at the Presidential Drugs Control Agency to 22 years in jail for his alleged involvement in drugs smuggling.
The Tajik government says a group of young fighters who were engaged in clashes with security forces have begun to lay down their arms.
Tajik prosecutors say militants who were engaged in clashes with security forces this week have refused to lay down their weapons despite a cease-fire.
Tajikistan's military has ended operations in the eastern province of Badakhshan. Dozens are reported to have died in fighting that broke out in the restive region following the July 21 assassination of a key regional figure.
Tajik officials say 12 government troops and 30 militants have been killed as government troops, backed by helicopters, launched an operation targeting a group suspected of involvement in the killing of a top Tajik security official.
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