The Washington Post, November 5th, 1994
Lee Hockstader's article on the ills besetting Tajikistan {"Bloody Central Asian Border War Stirs Afghan Memories in Russia," news story, Oct. 24} is riddled with misunderstanding and perpetuates corrosive misperceptions. Tajikistan's closest cultural, ethnic and linguistic brethren are found in Afghanistan, not Iran. For centuries Afghans of Tajik descent have lived in northern and western Afghanistan. Today, more than 4 1/2 million Afghan Tajiks - more than the Tajik population of Tajikistan - populate northern and western Afghanistan. Afghans of Tajik descent have historically served the Pa...
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