After nearly three years, the Manhattan location of Tashkent, the Uzbek grocery chain with a very popular hot bar, will open. After years of waiting, the paper is off the windows on Sixth Avenue.

But finally, after repeated appeals from the Muslims of Tashkent, it was returned once more to Central Asia in 1924. It has remained in Tashkent ever since. Visiting dignitaries from the Muslim world ...

In Tashkent this week, Uzbekistan convened an international conference on Afghanistan. More than 100 delegations from nearly 30 countries attended the event, mingling with the Taliban.