The Tashkent clan is a powerful political

clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Many societie ...

based in

Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

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that controls the Uzbek National Security Service (known as the SNB, or MHH), and since late 2005 the Interior Ministry. The Samarkand clan is its biggest rival for control over the

Government of Uzbekistan The Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan (, Uzbek Cyrillic: Узбекистон Республикасининг Ҳукумати) exercises executive power in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The members of the government are the President of ...

.Uzbekistan: Karimov appears to have political clans firmly in hand
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Zokir Almatov Zokir Almatov (born 10 October 1949 in Zangiata, Tashkent Region, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union), sometimes romanized Zakir, is an Uzbek politician who was the interior minister of Uzbekistan until 2005. In 1967 he graduated from high school and immedi ...

, a member of the Samarkand clan, resigned in late 2005 saying his health prohibited him from continuing to serve.

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Islam Karimov Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov (30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the ...

appointed the deputy director of the National Security Service, a member of the Tashkent clan, as his replacement. Analysts had previously suggested that the Interior Ministry, under Almatov's leadership, had organized the

1999 Tashkent bombings The 1999 Tashkent bombings occurred on 16 February when six car bombs exploded in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The bombs exploded over the course of an hour and a half, and targeted multiple government buildings. It is possible that five o ...

. Others have suggested the bombings were done by the SNB under the leadership of

Rustam Inoyatov Rustam Rasulovich Inoyatov (; born 22 June 1944) is a former Uzbek government official, as well as a colonel general. He was head of the National Security Service of Uzbekistan (SNB) from 1995 until his dismissal in January 2018. He was said to ...

, who at the time led the Tashkent clan. Analysts suggested a series of bombings in 2004 in Tashkent and

Bukhara Bukhara ( ) is the List of cities in Uzbekistan, seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents . It is the capital of Bukhara Region. People have inhabited the region around Bukhara for at least five millennia, and t ...

may have been done by the SNB against the Interior Ministry.Uzbekistan: Islam Karimov vs. The clans
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