ABC News. January 11, 2012.

By Ron Clariborne //  I arrived in Dushanbe, the bleak capital of Tajikistan in central Asia, on a cold pre-dawn morning. I was there to take part in a reporting workshop for a group of college students interested in a career in journalism, part of the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative to promote democratic institutions abroad. I was bleary-eyed and exhausted from traveling nearly 20 straight hours from New York to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan to its south, and is not an easy place to get to. …

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