Two days later, a helicopter chartered by the Aga Khan network ferried the women and children away to Dushanbe.
For flight details, join the queue of journalists, chancers and do-gooders clustered outside the Afghan embassy on Bakhtar Street, Dushanbe.
In his home village, an hour from Dushanbe, Mr Allahmurodov's savings make him a big fish, albeit in a miserable pond.
EBRD's bankers prefer swinging Budapest, pretty Ljubljana or scenic Prague to the more austere delights of Dushanbe (in Tajikistan) or Ashgabat (Turkmenistan).
Health workers in the capital, Dushanbe, fear another typhoid epidemic, which last year put almost 9, 000 people in hospital and killed about 100.
The main bit is an aluminium smelter at Turzunzade, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of the capital Dushanbe, which is Tajikistan's main foreign-exchange earner.
The Secretary-General left Tashkent in the early afternoon for Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
The least uncomfortable way of reaching it is by an elderly Soviet military plane which makes an occasional run from Dushanbe, the capital of neighbouring Tajikistan.
This week the government claimed that, after fierce fighting in Dushanbe and in Turzunzade, its forces had captured the smelter and that the colonel had fled to Uzbekistan.
Dushanbe's taxis usually reach their destination, if not very fast.
You may be able to persuade the pilot to drop you off at Dushanbe when he flies his return leg, which is to a Russian military base in Tajikistan where the plane is maintained.
But although Russia continues to keep its 201st motor rifle division in the capital, Dushanbe, and has agreed to set up a military base in the country, this is one former republic in which Russia seems neither able nor willing to invest.
Other major events marking the Year include World Water Week, in Stockholm (Sweden) from 1-6 September, a conference on water cooperation in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), also in September, and the Water Summit, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on 10 and 11 October.
Other major events marking the Year include a conference on water cooperation to be held in August in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), World Water Week in Stockholm (Sweden) from 1-6 September, and the Water Summit, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on 8 to 11 October.
Babak Zanjani has more money in the bank than the entire GDP of this tiny former Soviet republic, but in the past few years he has been investing in businesses here, and today he is in town for the inauguration of his latest venture - a smart new transport hub for the capital, Dushanbe.
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