New director of the National Information Agency “Khovar” will be introduced to subordinates.

Zafar Saidzoda, who since 2003 headed the national news agency is advanced to the position of Senior Advisor to the President on Foreign Policy.

Zafar Saidzoda is 46 years old. An alumnus of the Tajik State University, he embarked upon pedagogical profession in 1983. Since then, he worked in the Central Youth Committee of Tajikistan, in the Supreme Council of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic; he headed the Press Center of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Foreign Ministry Press Service. From 1995 to 2003 Saidzoda was Press Secretary to the President of Tajikistan.

Zafar Saidzoda is the author, co-author and compiler of a number of books about President Emomali Rakhmon. In 2000 he published his analytical manuscript totled “Social estrangement as an antipode of human freedom: dialectical logic”.

Saidzoda is a member of the Tajik Union of Journalists, and a laureate of the national award for journalists named after Abdulkosim Lakhuti.

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