Hold your breath
STROLL around Dushanbe, even in daytime, and you cannot help wondering whether the deal worked out between Tajikistan's government and its Islamist rebels on March 8th is going to endure. Years of civil war have not done as much damage to Tajikistan's capital as they did to Beirut and Kabul. Looked at from a distance, Dushanbe could be any other Soviet-built town. But then you notice the roadblocks, and the idle knots of men carrying machineguns.
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