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TAJIKISTAN: DREAMING OF THE MOUNTAINS - 2004-05-21

Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
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Friday, 2004, May 21
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Three years after the government of Tajikistan resettled hundreds of people to develop an arid region in the south of the country, many of the settlers want to go back to their old homes in the mountains because they say the experiment has failed. 'I dream of returning to my village in the Pamirs,' said Zubaida Gushirova, a nurse who is one of the settlers who suddenly found themselves living in the semi-desert lowlands after a lifetime in Badakhshan, a high-altitude region sometimes called the 'roof of the world'.

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV
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