Salamat Khalilov, 46-year-old was among thousands injured in last Friday’s protests in Nukus, capital of Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan region. Unprecedented unrest over constitutional amendments shook this provincial city last Friday, killing 18 people. Violence forced President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to walk back proposed changes to the constitution. Salamat Khalilov, an Uzbek builder, is unsure what blew … Read more
The boy was born in Dustlik, Uzbekistan. His mother was 35 weeks and four days pregnant when she gave birth on June 28. Despite doctors’ best efforts, the baby died two hours and 10 minutes after birth. The infant was seen on film crying in an incubator. A baby boy born to two siblings who … Read more
Mohsen Akhavan, who bears the clerical rank of hojatoleslam, was targeted in the city of Isfahan. A Sunni extremist with Uzbek roots killed two Shiite clergy members and hurt a third in the courtyard of the main shrine in Mashhad. TEHRAN: Iranian media said that a motorcycle-mounted assailant shot and wounded a Shiite cleric in … Read more
Uzbekistan and Iran agreed earlier this year to enhance bilateral trade and announced preparations to negotiate a preferential trade pact. Cargo trucks travelling from Uzbekistan to Iran must travel in a column and will be escorted by Turkmen traffic police when traversing Turkmenistan’s territory. Turkmenistan has allowed transit cargo transportation from Uzbekistan to Iran since … Read more
TEHRAN: Iranian police have detained three suspects in the recent shooting murder of two Sunni Muslim clerics, according to the director of the Golestan province’s legal authority on Tuesday. Investigators discovered that the three, who were also Sunnis, had “no affiliation with terrorist organisations,” according to the official IRNA news agency. According to local media, … Read more
TASHKENT, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — Uzbekistan is tightening pandemic restrictions as the first case of Omicron variant of COVID-19 virus was confirmed in the country, the Uzbek Health Ministry said on Sunday. A foreign citizen who arrived in Uzbekistan on Friday was confirmed to be infected with the Omicron variant, the ministry said, noting that … Read more
