Excerpt translated via Google.
Snow-covered peaks, secluded lakes and Marco Polo Horse – a journey through the Pamir Mountains is a hot tip for adventurers ..
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… the people in the poverty-stricken Pamir region has rekindled hopes that draw, with the Aga Khan to do above all. Tajikistan is a Muslim country, but almost all of the 200,000 residents of Gorno-Badakhshan are Ismaili Muslims, which puts them at a liberal minority of Islam. Their spiritual leader is the Aga Khan.
As in every house in the Pamir also depends on Massain the portrait of the Aga Khan. In recent years, the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) invested considerable sums on the development of Tajikistan, because the country is considered the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
via Tadschikistan: Alleine auf dem Dach der Welt – taz.de.
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