Tajikistan's president appoints daughter as foreign minister

[Dover]

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

The president of Tajikistan has appointed his daughter, Ozoda Rakhmonova, as deputy minister of foreign affairs, making her the latest in a line of powerful “first daughters” in central Asia.

Emomali Rakhmon’s announcement of his daughter's promotion will evoke comparisons with the meteoric rise of the daughters of premiers in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

Mrs Rakhmonova, 30, studied politics and economics at Georgetown University in Washington before working for three years in the consular division of Tajikistan’s foreign ministry.

Dr Bhavna Davé, a senior lecturer in central Asian politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, said: “The president has got nine children; seven daughters and two sons. She is one of the eldest so perhaps that is why she was chosen – I know that the two sons are younger than her.

“Generally, the children of the elite have had the best education so unless there is something wrong with them mentally it shouldn’t be that difficult for them to study abroad and be successful.

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Mrs Rakhmonova’s path from studying in America – where she met her husband, now Tajikistan’s deputy finance minister – to a lofty role in government is well trodden by other children of powerful central Asian families.






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[Freddie Stubbs]

1. It's good to see that these places are progressing to wards gender equality when it come to nepotism

;)

[htuttle]

2. Is he the one that has his own line of cologne and named 'bread' after his mother?

...or is he the one that boils people in oil?

I can never keep our Central Asian allies straight...

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Neither, actually

Naming bread after his mother was Turkmenistan (and months too) - that guy died in 2006. Boiling people alive is Uzbekistan.

[BOG PERSON]

4. Allowing a girl into a boys' club

doesn't necessarily alter the character or purpose of that club. More likely is that it makes the girl an honorary boy.

[pfitz59]

5. bush appointed one of Cheney's daughters

to a high-level state dept job. 1st world despots do it too!

[proteus_lives]

6. Nepotism.

It's as old as humankind. We'll never get rid of it.

[treestar]

7. I know, and I hate it

Given that I am not related to anyone who can give me a job.