Shi'a Islam is practiced by a small percentage of the population ofTajikistan. According to the 2009U.S. State Department report, the proportion of Shi'a Islam practitioners in Tajikistan is 3%, compared to 95% forSunni Islam.[1]The base of the Shi'a population in Tajikistan are thePamiris, who practiceNizariIsmailism. This variant ofShi'a Islam holds that there is an unbroken chain of livingimams down to the present day, currently represented by theAga Khan, the 49thimam. The Pamiri Ismaili homeland is inGorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan's mountainous east alongside the border withXinjiang, with their spiritual and cultural capital in the city ofKhorugh.
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