Khovar

Khovar is the National Information Agency of Tajikistan, the official state news agency of that country and the main wire service of its government. It was founded on 31 December 1925 as the Tajik Telegraph Agency during the period when Tajikistan was an autonomous republic inside the Soviet Union. In the Second World War it sent photo reports about the Eastern Front, even though many of its staff had joined the Red Army, and it kept widening its work after the war. It took the name Tajik News Agency Khovar in April 1992 and became the central state information body under the Tajik government in April 2004, when it received its present name. Its subsidiary Radio Khovar FM, set up in 2011, has become one of the most popular radio stations in the country. The agency writes its name in Tajik as Ховар.