The large majority of Tajikistan’s population is nominally Sunni Muslims. The Tajik government does not recognize Pamiris as an ethnic minority. The report focuses on government actions over the past ...

Representation of Uzbek communities in Tajikistan is not great; ethnic Uzbeks held “only 7.6 percent of jobs in the civil service, far below their representation in the population” in 2014.

Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - There are ethnic-religious reasons behind the tensions in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, located in the eastern part of Tajikistan. This is what Giannicola Saldutti ...