DUSHANBE, March 7, 2016, Asia-Plus – Afghan drug trafficker has been killed on the Khorog stretch of Tajikistan’s common border with Afghanistan, Mohammad Ulughkhojayev, a spokesman for the State Committee for National Security (SCNS), told Asia-Plus on March 7.
According to him, the trespasser was killed while resisting arrest.
A package of narcotic drug that tested positive to hashish weighing 4 kilograms and a pistol were found on the spot.
We will recall that Tajik border guards killed a member of an armed group who had crossed over from Afghanistan and lost an officer during a clash along the border that took place took place near the “Panj” frontier post early Saturday, March 5.
The Afghan armed group was reportedly headed by Mirafzal waladi Arbab Sherafzal and the killed trespasser was identified as Mulla Fashiddin waladi Qurban.
Operation to hunt down and eliminate other members of this terrorist group is under way.
The trespassers reportedly crossed over from Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province.
Meanwhile, Afghan media sources report armed trespassers that illegal crossed into Tajik territory last Saturday are members of the Taliban movement. Taliban militants reportedly now control 30 percent of territory of the Imam-Sahib district in Kunduz province.
