The Kyrgyz government has already paid for the transit of 33 resettled Pamir Kyrgyz and provided homes for them. Afghan officials have declined to comment publicly on the resettlement proposal.

In 1978, fearing the new communist regime in Afghanistan, many Pamir Kyrgyz took refuge in Pakistan and later in eastern Turkey. Today, some 2,500 ethnic Kyrgyz live in the Turkish village of Uluu ...

Stretching more than 1,200km between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Pamir Highway is one of the world's wildest roads – and for the intrepid traveller, one of the most epic road trips.

I had brought a tent and was intending to be self-sufficient, but in all the villages people instantly came out to greet us with rounds of bread, and bowl after bowl of freshly made yak's-milk yogurt.

The explorers collected genetic samples from residents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and the DNA analysis had proved Bulgarians came from Pamir not from western Siberia as previously believed.

Afghan and Nato search teams have located the wreckage of a passenger plane which crashed between Kunduz and Kabul on Monday, officials say. A Nato statement said the Pamir Airways crash site was ...