KULOB, January 11, Asia-Plus — 8,354 residents of the city and the district of Kulob received new Tajik passports in 2006, Lieutenant-Colonel Nasreddin Qalandarov, chief of the Kulob department for visas and passports, said.
According to him, 200 of them had previously used the former Soviet Union’s passports.
The Kulob visas and passport office chief noted that last year, 750 people left Kulob for other place of permanent residency. “At the same time, 3,490 other people arrived and registered in Kulob last year,” Qalandarov noted. .
