DUSHANBE, December 1, Asia-Plus — The autumn conscription campaign has been successfully finished in Tajikistan, reaching 100 percent of the target determined by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the country, Major-General Akbar Qayumov, the chief of the mobilization directorate of the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
Gorno Badakhshan was the first among the country’s regions to fulfill its autumn conscription target. GBAO has fulfilled its conscription target by November 1 already.
As a whole, no instances of serious violation of the conscription campaign were recorded; however, the ministry received separate applications from conscripts’ parents, the general said. “These applications mainly concerned cases of calling up the single son for military service,” Qayumov said, noting that all those applications were checked.
In the meantime, health condition of conscripts remains an acute problem. Of a total number of young men due for call-up, 40%-50% has been found not fit for military service.
The autumn conscription campaign was carried out from October through November 2007, and the draft affected able-bodied male citizens in the age bracket of 18 years old to 27 years old who are not members of the armed forces reserve.
