Amriddin Olimov is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
Tajik men say they can't get a passport in a beard, seemingly a result of Tajik government efforts attributed to the fights for secularism and against extremism.
Tajiks donate clothes and cash to help a homeless woman who was so desperate she tried to put her six children into an orphanage.
Ten-year-old Maryam, the only member of her family to have survived an attack on the Islamic State group, has been welcomed back to Tajikistan with open arms.
