Also by Muhammad Tahir
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![Former Turkmen Foreign Minister Boris Shikhmuradov (file photo)]()
October 10, 2013Campaign Seeks Proof That Former Turkmen Minister Alive
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![Established mosques in Turkmenistan are widely believed to be fuller today than at any time since the country's independence from the Soviet Union. (file photo)]()
May 30, 2013Turkmenistan Keeps Lid On All Things Islam
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![A shop sign in Tashkent in both Uzbek and Russian]()
September 28, 2011In Post-Soviet Central Asia, Russian Takes A Backseat
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![Afghans walk in the old city of Bamiyan, on an old Silk Road trade route.]()
August 01, 2011Washington's Silk Road Dream
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![U.S. -- Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf delivers an address titled 'The State of the US-Pakistani Relationship' at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, 21Jul2011]()
July 22, 2011Musharraf Backs Pakistan's ISI
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![An Afghan soldier stands guard at the gate of an air-force compound in Kabul in April 2011.]()
July 14, 2011U.S. Drawdown Stirs Fears In Central Asia
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![A 155mm round is fired from a Howitzer at insurgents at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar Province on July 8.]()
July 09, 2011Afghanistan: The Trouble With The Transition
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![U.S. Senator John Kerry during a news conference in Islamabad earlier this month. He had traveled to Pakistan for meetings aimed at getting the relationship between the two countries back on track.]()
May 25, 2011Pakistan Provokes Deep Divisions In Washington
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![While Kyrgyzstan is no stranger to demonstrations on the streets of the capital (such as this one on March 30), the other Central Asian states seem anxious to prevent anything too similar to the unrest in the Arab world from getting a foothold.]()
April 28, 2011Governments Move To Thwart 'Arab Spring' In Central Asia
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![Many Afghans are loath to see the return of the Taliban, especially women. Life has never been easy for Afghan women, but it has never been worse for them than it was under the Taliban.]()
April 22, 2011Don't Negotiate Over The Heads Of The Afghan People
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![From the mountains to the negotiating table?]()
March 22, 2011A Diplomatic 'Address' For The Taliban Gaining Momentum
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![US President Barack Obama (center) hosts Aghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right) in Wahington in May 2009.]()
February 15, 2011U.S. Wrestles With Policy Toward Pakistan
