UZBEKISTAN. Bukhara. 1993. Jabar Kalan medersan, koranic school, the first for girl wearing hijab, islamist veil. Armed Islamists from Afghanistan are infiltrating Tadjikistan (TAD) defended by Tadjik forces and Russian border guards. Neighbouring state such as Uzbekistan (UZB) fear destabilisation of their own newly independent country and try to keep a strict separation of religion from state. For how long?