DUSHANBE, March 17, 2011, Asia-Plus — Afghan provinces bordering Tajikistan have practically been cleaned of Taliban militants and international terrorists, Tajik Ambassador to Afghanistan Sharofiddin Imomov stated in Dushanbe today at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Working Group on Afghanistan.
According to him, it has become possible due to a new anti-terror tactics conventionally called “pointed strike tactics” that has been used in Afghanistan since last year.
“This tactics has demonstrated its unquestionable advantages,” considers Ambassador Imomov, “It has demonstrated its effectiveness. Suffice it say that efficient use of this tactics has allowed destroying bases and annihilating armed groups of the Taliban Movement and international terrorists in northeast provinces of Takhar, Kunduz, and Badakhshan as well as to a large degree in the Juzjan and Faryab provinces in a short space of time and with the least casualties.”
A two-day meeting of the CSTO Working Group on Afghanistan is concluding in the Tajik capital today. The meeting participants include representatives from all CSTO member nations, except Uzbekistan. The CSTO set up its Working Group on Afghanistan in 2005.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization now groups Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
