Somewhere on the steppes of Central Asia, midway between Europe and China, is the city of Tashkent.Invaded by successive waves of Arabs and Persians, sacked by Genghis Khan in 1219, and colonised by ...

Shastri died in Tashkent on January 11, 1966, a day after signing a peace treaty to end the 1965 India-Pakistan War. Bollywood films are popular in the country, too.

Sharov Rashidov, the First Secretary of Uzbekistan’s Communist Party, made 18 trips to Moscow to gain the necessary permissions for the Tashkent Metro, and made sure that Metrogiprotens, the ...