Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament has approved amendments proposed to the country’s law on the national symbols. The amendments give Tajik nationals the right to hoist a Tajik Flag at their homes.
Companies and enterprises irrespective of the forms of ownership are also given the right to hoist a Tajik Flag at their offices.
The amendments were proposed by the government.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in November 2009 signed a law establishing National Flag Day, making Tajikistan the second country in Central Asia after Turkmenistan with such a holiday. Tajikistan celebrated National Flag Day for the first time on November 24, 2009.
Some 300 students marched through Dushanbe''s main street with a 90-meter-long Tajik flag on November 24, 2009 to celebrate the holiday. As part of the festivities, 22 runners completed a multi-day relay of several hundred kilometers in which they carried a Tajik flag from the town of Tursunzoda on the Tajik-Uzbek border to the site for construction of the Roghun hydropower plant.
Tajikistan was the last of the former Soviet republics to reveal a new flag, which was adopted on November 24, 1992. The one common link between this and the 1953 Tajik SSR flag is the choice of colors – red, white and green.
The crown represents the Tajik people, the name itself is derived from tajvar, which means “crowned.” In traditional Tajik cultural aspects the magic word "seven" is a symbol of perfection, the embodiment of happiness and the provider of virtue. According to Tajik legend, Islamic heaven is composed of seven beautiful orchids, separated by seven mountains each with a glowing start on top. The middle white stripe is one-and-a-half times the size of the red and green stripes. The red represents the unity of the nation and the symbol of the sun and victory; the white represents purity, cotton, the snow on the mountains and the unity of the people; and green stands for the spiritual meaning of Islam and represents the generosity of nature of the country. The symbol charged in the middle of the white stripe is a crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars.
