An expert at the Tajik state-run think tank has outlined regions of Tajikistan, where residents are reportedly more prone to extremist moods.
An article on this subject by Mullomukhtor Mulloyev, a specialist at the Center for Strategic Studies under the President of Tajikistan, has been posted on the Center’s website.
According to him, the number of Tajik youth joining Islamist armed groups has reduced over the past two years. At the same, the outlawed Salafi Group has intensified its activities in Tajikistan in recent years, the expert notes.
Based on the data received, Mulloyev has attempted to make up a map of the extremism-prone regions of the country.
In the northern Sughd province, the cities Khujand, Isfara, Konibodom, Istaravshan and Panjakent as well as Spitamen, Jabbor-Rasoulov, Asht, Bobojon-Ghafourov and Mastchoh districts have been determined as the extremism-prone areas.
In the south Khatlon province, residents of the city of Kulob and the districts of Shahritous, Qubodiyon, Bokhtar, Jaloliddini-Balkhi, Farkhor and Vose are reportedly more prone to extremism moods.
In the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), residents of the Vanj district, especially the Yazgulom jamaot, are more prone to extremism moods, according to the expert.
Mulloyev says Roudaki, Vahdat and Nourobod districts are potentially dangerous in terms of extremism moods.
The expert also notes that labor migrants are more susceptible to the ideas of radical Islamic groups once away from their homelands.
