ZARGHAR, Tajikistan — Arranged marriages of couples who possess never ever met are typical in rural Tajikistan. Nevertheless the August 27 wedding of town schoolteacher Saidsho Asrorov’s to Marjona Hudoidodova is very uncommon.
Their wedding ended up being arranged within just one week on sales associated with the country’s autocratic ruler.
President Emomali Rahmon ended up being visiting Tajikistan’s southwestern Khatlon region on August 16 whenever Asrorov, a 23-year-old history instructor, offered a speech praising “the first choice associated with country and founder of comfort in Tajikistan.”
Asrorov expressed appreciation to Rahmon for their part in “supporting training in addition to upbringing associated with the young generation” and recited his very own verses of Tajik poetry (see movie below) to honor Rahmon, an old Soviet apparatchik that has governed Tajikistan since 1992. (more…)