Pamiri Tajik Erotic

Pamiri Tajiks (also called Mountain Tajiks, Pamiris, or Badakhshani) comprise approximately 2.2% of the Tajikistan population — approximately 220,000, concentrated in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in the high-altitude Pamir Mountains of eastern Tajikistan, plus cross-border communities in Afghanistan (the Wakhan Corridor, ~25,000+), China (the small Tajik-Chinese population of Tashkurgan in southwestern Xinjiang, ~50,000+), and Pakistan (the small Wakhi communities of Hunza and Gojal in Gilgit-Baltistan). The Pamiri are an Iranian-language-speaking Ismaili Shia Muslim sub-group, distinct from the broader Tajik population by language (the Pamir languages — Shughni, Wakhi, Yaghnobi, Bartangi, Rushani, Sarikoli, Ishkashimi, etc. — are East Iranian languages, distinct from Persian/Tajik which is West Iranian), religion (Ismaili Shia vs Sunni for the broader Tajik population — the Pamiri community follows the Imamate of the Aga Khan as the Ismaili Imam), and culture. The Pamiri community has been subject to documented political-religious tensions with the central Tajikistan government, including the 2012 Khorog crisis and ongoing economic and political marginalization despite the autonomous-region status of GBAO.