Tajik expert Sayyof Mirzo has urged the authorities to declare water national wealth and use it for the benefit of the country.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus Dushanbe, 8 August: Pakistan acutely needs to import Central Asian electricity, the Pakistani ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Tajikistan, Khalid Usman Qaiser, told journalists today, commenting on an intergovernmental agreement on drawing up a project of the electricity transmission line Central Asia - South Asia - 1000 (Central Asia - South Asian - 1000 or CASA-1000) and further development of the Central Asian as well as South Asian electricity markets, which had been signed several days ago in Islamabad.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus website Dushanbe, 28 July: Asadullo Ghulomov, the first deputy prime minister of Tajikistan, in an interview with Asia-Plus, has denied a report by the Russian Kommersant newspaper that Tajikistan agreed to give Russia 75 per cent of stakes in the Roghun hydroelectric power station.

A Tajik pundit has said Tajikistan must not give the controlling stake of the project for construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power station to Russia. He said Tajikistan should not lose control over the strategic facility.

Excerpt from article by journalist Bahodur Zoirov entitled "The National Democratic Party will build Roghun", published by the Tajik newspaper Asia-Plus on 28 May The Tajik [ruling] People's Democratic Party [PDP] will take patronage of the construction of the Roghun hydroelectric station [which is under construction in central Tajikistan].