Archives for the ‘Central Asia’ Category

Kashmir – Fragile Mountains

By Vince Gainey • Mar 22nd, 2006 • Category: Central Asia

Vince Gainey recently returned from a two-week mission to Pakistan-administered Kashmir to conduct an assessment for a humanitarian aid agency on provision of health services to earthquake survivors.



Kyrgyzstan – A Day At The Races

By Lee Ridley • Jan 26th, 2006 • Category: Central Asia

Horsing around with the French, Americans and Swiss in a little-known corner of the world.



Kazakhstan – Horsemeat and Two Veg

By Robert Chenciner • Sep 6th, 2005 • Category: Central Asia

A Kazakh Nomads’ expression of equine affinity states, “Kazakhs are born in horses”.
Perhaps that’s going a little too far, if taken literally, but there’s undeniably a very close alliance between man and beast in this vast tract of Central Asia.
The present Republic of Kazakhstan was created in 1991 on the dissolution of the USSR and [...]