DUSHANBE, July 11, Asia-Plus – Mirhusein Narziyev-run wing of the Socialist Party of Tajikistan (SPT) has acted within the framework of Tajikistan’s Constitution and laws, an inter-party examination commission comprising representatives from the Party of Economic Reforms, Social-Democratic Party (SDPT), Democratic Party (DPT), and Islamic Revival Party (IRPT), as well as independent experts Taiqhun Karimov and Sherali Kenjayev made such a conclusion.
“The inter-party commission for examination of the SPT activity has been set up at request of Mirhusein Narziyev, the leader of one of two wings of the SPT,” Rajab Maraimov, the head of the DPT organization for
Dushanbe
, said. Mr. Maraimov also noted that submitted materials questioned legitimacy of the SPT wing run by Abduhalim Ghafforov and Qurbon Vose.
“The commission has made such a conclusion after a weeklong examination of various documents and materials concerning the SPT activity,” said Mr. Maraimov, “Thus it has been established that all annual reports and materials about the party’s activity submitted to the Ministry of Justice and tax services as well as reports about the SPT activity published in media since March 2001 have been singed by Mirhusein Narziyev.”
According to him, the documents are also evidence that Abduhalim Ghafforov, the former head of the SPT for Dushanbe, and Qurbon Vose, the former deputy head of the SPT, had been expelled from the party for violating the party’s charter and ignoring resolutions passed by the party’s board in March 2000.
We will recall that Narziyev-run wing of the SPT has repeatedly issued statements accusing the government of interfering in the party’s internal affairs. Thus, one of such statements issued in July 2004 said that two former party members, Abduhalim Ghafforov and Qurbon Vose, who were now government officials, held an unauthorized party congress in June 2004 together with other former party members in an attempt to discredit the Socialist Party. For their part, Abduhalim Ghafforov and Qurbon Vose state it was their wing that was registered with the Justice Minister as the Socialist Party of Tajikistan.
