The AKDN is a private development agency funded by the Aga Khan, the imam of the Ismaili Shi'ite community. The majority of Gorno-Badakhshan's some 250,000 people identify as Ismailis.

The University of Central Asia in Khorog was built with funding from the Aga Khan. (Photo: University of Central Asia) Authorities in Tajikistan are putting the squeeze on organizations and companies ...

For a week in late July, Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province was in crisis. On July 24, two days after a top security official, General Abdullo Nazarov, was killed in Badakhshan, an ...