Tajikistan’s leader has urged visiting Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to work together to prevent the rise of instability in Central Asia.

More than 1 000 soldiers from Russia, China and Central Asia have arrived in Tajikistan for three days of joint military exercises.

An earthquake measuring 5,5 on the Richter scale killed at least three children and left more than a thousand people without shelter in the south of Tajikistan, the emergencies…