Tag Archives : Central Asia

One of the foremost cycling associations in Asia, The Cycling Grand Tour League, has now initiated an all new ‘around the world’ campaign, where in the organization is urging its members to journey across around the globe on their bicycles and experience the sights and sounds with a truly personal perspective. This incredible new program that [...]

Friday Mosque in Herat Image: Koldo Hormaza Wikitravel Herat was one of the largest cultural and Islamic centers in Central Asia in the 14th till the 16th centuries. Today, it is the third largest city in Afghanistan. It is located in the western part of the country, bordered with Iran. Herat was the Timurid center of art, poetry, and miniature painting [...]

In a recent interview, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserts that ‘Pakistan [is] not doing enough to fight terrorism’ and believes that Afghanistan requires the sustained support of the global community if it is to return to the path of peace, freedom, and an environment in which fundamentalist terrorist elements do not have the sway they [...]

According to revelations of Russian intelligence, Polish leaders ‘conspired’ during the 1930s with Nazi Germany against the vital interests of the Soviet Union, ‘instigating separatism’ in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia to promote the ‘disintegration’ of the USSR, and ‘opposed’ the formation of [...]

Tajikistan, a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia, has Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Pakistan as its bordering neighbors. The Rasht Valley, an administrative and geographic unit of Tajikistan, became the stronghold of the opposition forces during the Tajikistan Civil War (1992-1997). Rasht was the stronghold of the Islamists [...]

As it did in Tibet, the Chinese leadership is repressing the disturbances hardly in Xinjiang. The Muslims Uigures of the area are feeling degraded and stolen of their culture while they suffer in their birthplace under the domain of Han Chinese ethnicity. Xinjiang (“new border”, in Chinese) is an enormous area that links China to Central [...]