ZARGHAR, Tajikistan — Arranged marriages of partners who’ve don’t ever met are typical in rural Tajikistan. Though the 27 wedding of town schoolteacher Saidsho Asrorov’s to Marjona Hudoidodova is extremely uncommon august.

Their wedding finished up being arranged in a matter of one on instructions of this country’s autocratic ruler week.

President Emomali Rahmon finished up being visiting Tajikistan’s southwestern Khatlon area on August 16 whenever Asrorov, a brief history this is certainly 23-year-old, offered a speech praising «the very first option connected with nation and creator of convenience in Tajikistan.»

Asrorov suggested admiration to Rahmon because of their part in «supporting training along with upbringing for the generation that is young and recited his / her very own verses of Tajik poetry (see film below) to honor Rahmon, a classic Soviet apparatchik who might have governed Tajikistan since 1992.

Duly impressed — and notwithstanding the kowtowing that regularly moves from their hold on energy — Rahmon asked Asrorov if he’d been hitched.

Asrorov, that will struggle to their paltry teacher’s income to cover a regular «bride expense» towards the mothers and fathers of the next partner, reacted he wound up being solitary.

«I took place to get worried and excited in my message,» Asrorov told RFE/RL on 22 august. «The president asked us about my life that is entire and. He asked if we happened to be hitched. We responded ‘no.’ then he instructed the location leadership to choose my wedding. Also in only times, my wedding shall take place.»

Rahmon furthermore ordered area officials to pay for the trouble connected with wedding.

That tripped a search that is instant the location authorities, which formed a committee of matchmakers led by Dilafruz Mahmadalieva, the deputy chairwoman of the Bohtar District’s Department of Ideology. Weiterlesen