• Prime Minister Modi’s Visit to all the 5 Central Asian Republics in 2015 was a significant moment in these relations.

1.2.1. India-Tajikistan

♤ Tajikistan, which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and China (and Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan), has been a close ally of India and is a “valued friend and strategic partner in Asia,”. It declared its independence on 9 September 1991.

♤ The country served as an important link for India in the 1990s when India recognised and supported the Northern Alliance government in Afghanistan and practically had no ties with Taliban government.