DUSHANBE. May 26 (Interfax) - Unrest in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous province, where clashes claimed five lives last week, has subsided.

However, the local population has expressed fear that the government will mount its military presence in the region, which lies in the Pamir Mountains in the east of the country.

The government denied having moved any extra armed forces into Gorno-Badakhshan.

"Reports by some Tajik and foreign media yesterday that more than 100 soldiers and officers