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<grammarly-extension data-grammarly-shadow-root="true" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; pointer-events: none; --rem: 16;" class="dnXmp"></grammarly-extension>ISLAMABAD: Tajikistan has condemned two cross-border attacks originating from Afghanistan that killed five people and injured five others, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon said Monday, according to the presidential press service. The Tajik Foreign Ministry confirmed that three Chinese nationals were among the dead after an assault last week on the LLC Shohin SM employees&rsquo; camp in the Khatlon region. The ministry said the attack &ldquo;originated from the territory of Afghanistan.&rdquo; In an official statement, the ministry reported, &ldquo;On the night of November 26, 2025, an armed attack was carried out from the territory of Afghanistan on the LLC Shohin SM employees&rsquo; camp located within the control area of the 1st Border Guard Post &lsquo;Istiqlol&rsquo; of the &lsquo;Yol&rsquo; Border Detachment.&rdquo; It added that the assault involved &ldquo;an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with grenades and firearms.&rdquo; The presidential press service denounced the actions as &ldquo;illegal&rdquo; and &ldquo;provocative,&rdquo; stating that Rahmon had ordered authorities to take &ldquo;effective measures&rdquo; to prevent the recurrence of &ldquo;such unfortunate incidents.&rdquo; Pakistan also weighed in last week, with its Foreign Office offering &ldquo;deepest condolences and strong solidarity,&rdquo; pledging cooperation with &ldquo;China, Tajikistan, and other regional partners&rdquo; to preserve stability. Following a meeting in Islamabad on November 30, Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Jiang Zaidong discussed the killings with Pakistan&rsquo;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. <div class="fr-embed"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D1303298308502905%26set%3Da.251429287023151%26type%3D3&show_text=true&width=500" width="500" height="831" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" spellcheck="false"></iframe></div><div class="fr-embed">&nbsp; </div>According to the Foreign Office, Dar &ldquo;expressed condolences over the tragic killing of three Chinese nationals in Tajikistan, near the Afghan border,&rdquo; and reaffirmed that Pakistan &ldquo;stands in full solidarity with China in these difficult times.&rdquo;

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Dushanbe says Afghanistan-origin attacks kill five, including three Chinese, prompting Tajik condemnation, while Pakistan offers condolences and pledges solidarity with China and Tajikistan for regional stability

Tajikistan slams Afghanistan for deadly cross-border attacks

BEIJING: Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103. The prestigious Tsinghua University, where he studied and served as a professor, said in a statement that Yang died of an illness, without sharing further details. &ldquo;Professor Yang is one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, having made revolutionary contributions to the development of modern physics,&quot; the statement said, praising his contribution to China&rsquo;s scientific and educational developments. Yang won the Nobel Prize in 1957 with Tsung-Dao Lee for their investigation of the so-called parity laws that led to &ldquo;important discoveries regarding the elementary particles,&rdquo; according to the Nobel Prize website. They were the first Chinese-born Nobel Prize winners in physics. In his speech at the Nobel Banquet at the time, he said he was as proud of his Chinese heritage as he was devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin. &ldquo;I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict,&rdquo; according to his speech, shared on the Nobel Prize website. Yang, also known as Frank or Franklin, was also famous for his Yang&ndash;Mills theory developed with American physicist Robert Mills. Born in 1922, Yang was brought up surrounded by the Tsinghua campus, where his father was a math professor, the website said. After finishing his undergraduate degree, he obtained his master&rsquo;s degree from Tsinghua. He enrolled in the University of Chicago in the United States to pursue a doctorate in 1946 and was strongly influenced by Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi, who had won the same Nobel Prize in 1938, the website said. He later became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1986, he became a distinguished Professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to which he generously donated many of his awards and articles, including the Nobel Prize. Starting from 1999, he served as a professor at Tsinghua. According to a 2017 report by China&#39;s official news agency Xinhua, Yang obtained American citizenship. He said at the time it was a painful decision, one that his father had not forgiven him for. He renounced his US citizenship in 2015, saying it was a beautiful country that gave him good opportunities in studying science, the report said.

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Chinese physicist Chen Ning Yang, Nobel laureate and co-founder of the Yang–Mills theory, died in Beijing at 103. A Tsinghua University professor, he revolutionized modern physics and bridged Chinese and Western scientific traditions.

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Tajikistan slams Afghanistan for deadly cross-border attacks

Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang dies at 103