AKIPRESS.COM - The eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's former President Islam Karimov, Gulnara Karimova, 45, was the only family member not to appear at her father’s funeral in 2016 — or at any of the more than 35,000 prayer vigils held since, The New York Times reports.

In fact, since 2014, she has disappeared from public view.

Many visitors to her father’s shrine are on their second or even third pilgrimage. Schoolchildren come in groups. Newlyweds make it their first honeymoon stop, conveniently adjacent to the 15th-century Registan Square monuments, among Central Asia’s most magnificent architectural treasures.

Even political prisoners released in the mild “Uzbek spring” that has come after Mr. Karimov’s death have been obliged to pay homage, with a two-day visit to the mausoleum complex as a condition of their freedom.