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Tajikistan travels (15348 words) |
 | This time were headed down to Kulyab - slightly alarmingly close to the Afghan border (a couple of hours) - though we'd be assured it would be safe... |
| Ruhafzo, the partner we were visiting, works in four rural villages in the Kulyab region providing educational support and training for young people, as well as organising parents' committees which liaise with local schools. |
| As we arrived at one of the villages in which Ruhafzo is working, we were treated to a traditional Kulyab greeting. |
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CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies (2879 words) |
| Kulyab's extremely negative attitude to the Islamists stemmed from well-founded apprehensions concerning its own vulnerability, rather than from ideological intransigence. |
| While giving the Kulyab a measure of support and actively playing the Uzbekistan card, the Leninabadis expected the former to win the battle for them and to agree to remain a junior partner in the inter-regional power sharing scheme. |
| It bore out the inadequacy of the then current conceptions and expectations that the newly independent Muslim states would be toppled by the Islamists, that the specific nature of their development warranted their rapid Islamization and return to that fold of civilisation from which they had been forcibly severed by Soviet power. |
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