The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan, bordering Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, is set to impose a hijab ban after the upper ...

You might not expect a country with a 95% Muslim population to ban the hijab but that's exactly what happened in Tajikistan ...

Women in Tajikistan, in Central Asia, are being advised by the government to dress more “Tajik-style” and not wear either revealing Western clothes or Islamic head coverings – supposedly to ...

"In Tajikistan, women have always faced pressure on clothing choices," Farzona Saidzoda, co-author of the feminist initiative "Tell Me Sister", told AFP. "Under the Soviet Union, the hijab was not ...

Those who wear foreign clothes like the hijab think of themselves as different. They are nothing, trample on our values, undermine our identity,” he had said. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan reach deal ...

As Central Asian governments tighten restrictions on the hijab in the name of upholding secularism, devout Muslim women find themselves forced to navigate an increasingly difficult choice between ...