First issue of new private weekly presented in Kulob

KULOB, July 12, 2013, Asia-Plus — The first edition of a new Kulob-based private weekly

Payk

(Message) has been published

An official presentation of the first issue of

Payk

was held at Kulob’s Palace of Youth on July 12.

“Payk

will be a social-political newspaper without any political or other partialities,”

Payk

editor Ahmad Ibrohim told Asia-Plus in an interview.   

At first the weekly with circulation of 2,000 will be published in Dushanbe.  Beginning on January 1, 2014, Payk will be published twice a week, Ibrohim said.