Tajik court jails two for killing army official
A court in the former Soviet Central Asian state of Tajikistan sentenced two men to long jail terms on Monday for killing a senior army official earlier this year. Judge Shavkat Abdulkhairov said the two men shot dead Khakimsho Khafizov, head of Tajikistan’s top military school, in revenge for not supporting an anti-government uprising in 1998. Full Story