Prominent Leninabad politicians, militarily weak, have so far been excluded from the peace process.

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Some accommodation will have to be reached with the relatively wealthy northern region around Leninabad.

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Before the end of the Soviet era Leninobodis, people who live around the city of Leninabad in the economically dominant north, held sway.

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The peace deal has yet to be agreed to by a secular opposition group that is strong in the isolated, but economically important, northern Leninabad region, where the president survived an attempt on his life in April.

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