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

New Delhi: Muslim-majority Tajikistan is set to ban the hijab as the government continues with its efforts to clamp down on public religiosity and promote its conception of Tajiki culture.

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 ...

You might not expect a country with a 95% Muslim population to ban the hijab but that's exactly what happened in Tajikistan last week. The central Asian nation's parliament has approved a bill 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 ...

Tajikistan said Wednesday it would publish ... President Emomali Rahmon, in power since 1992, has called the wearing of the Islamic hijab a "problem for society", with authorities calling on ...

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 ...