Update: Documentary released in 1998
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Pamirs, Tajikistan. These valleys connected Europe and the Middle East with the vast market of China, the remote mountains are home of 200,000 Pamiris. For more of 70 years they were an obscure outpost of the Soviet Union a strategic important area bordering China and Afghanistan. Red Cross Red Crescent workers bringing aid to what is maybe the poorest part of Central Asia face an uphill task in moving around…
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Ismailimail 
This documentry is of 1998, Please take note of this before you watch it
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That was a wonderful film, and a hint that perhaps some of the families portrayed were Ismaili would be in their evening prayer, where they say “Shah didar” as they shake hands with one another. I also heard in the prayers Mohamed Mustafa and Ali’s name.
Life is unimaginably difficult for them, but hopefully the University of Central Asia and other projects should in the long run bring these communities forward and in touch with the rest of the world.
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