Word: tajikistan
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...armfuls of the melon to take home. Everywhere you look, everyone seems to be eating watermelon, scooping out the juicy flesh with eager fingers. The more fortunate also suck pomegranate seeds or lick Mars Bar wrappers tossed by foreign journalists who brought them from Dushanbe, the capital of neighboring Tajikistan...
...poorest of the former Soviet republics, but Tajikistan is a gastronomic paradise compared to northern Afghanistan. Tajikistan, for instance, has sit-down restaurants. And women can dine out in public...
...central geopolitical question remains the route by which the lucrative Caspian Sea oil pipeline will run to the ocean, gives Russia, Iran and Pakistan a compelling interest in influencing the future of their Afghan neighbors. The Russians, through their clients in the former Soviet Republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, have supplied arms and on occasion even air support to the Uzbek and Tajik militias, while Iran has supported their fellow Shiite Hazaras in the west. But Pakistan, erstwhile sponsor of the Taliban and currently the West's most important ally in efforts to take down Bin Laden...
...TAJIKISTAN Struggling with an Islamic revolutionary group, the country will not allow Western nations to launch attacks from its territory...
...allies at this point include such bastions of Western ideals as Pakistan and the struggling former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. American determination to form a pan-national anti-terror coalition has even led it to make overtures to other states that stand accused of supporting terrorism: Iran and Syria both come to mind. The trouble is that, while the governments of these nations may be willing to ignore previously cold relations with the U.S. or to cooperate for the sake of debt relief and favor in the eyes of the world’s only superpower, their citizens...