Head of the Center
Hamza Muratbayevich Boltaev
Head of the Centre for Afghanistan and South Asian Studies.
At this position, he is responsible for studying and analyzing the region as well as developing analytical reports and materials. And also participates in seminars and conferences regarding the regional issues.
Hamza Boltaev is a lawyer and systems analyst. In 2010, he graduated from the Academy of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In 2014, he graduated from the Higher School for Strategic Analysis and Prognosis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and in 2021, from War Studies Department at King’s College London.
During his career, he successfully worked in different senior and managerial positions in the system of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2010-2018, including in the field of combating terrorism and extremism at the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Tashkent city. In 2018-2020, he worked as a senior analyst at the Center for Mass Communications of the Agency for Information and Mass Communications under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as a leading researcher at the Center for Scientific and Applied Research of the University of Public Safety of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2022.
This annual flagship report, including 13 policy briefs, offers an alternative glimpse at the events and developments in and around Afghanistan, prioritizing timely and significant thematic and regional approaches.
The recent, on March 12, 2024, visit of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov to Kabul underscores the importance of constant engagement with the Taliban regime. Ongoing negoti
On February 18-19 this year, an international meeting on Afghanistan was held in Doha under the auspices of the United Nations, which was chaired by Secretary–General A. Guterres.
The Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan received rather calm and “wait and see” reactions from nearly all the Central Asian Republics (CAR), with Tajikistan being unusually outspoken about the events unfolding in its southern neighbour. Although the CARs did not wel
Research Articles
07 March, 2024
Central Asia’s Relations with Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan