Resident of Khorog Qosim Abdurasulov is wanted by police on suspicion of killing the 27-year-old resident of Khorog Alinazar Qambarov, according to the Ministry of Interior (MoI).
A source at a MoI says the incident took in Khorog’s Bar Kharagh (Upper Khorog) neighborhood in the afternoon of July 16.
“Qosim Abdurasulov shot at Alinazar Qambarov from a pistol following quarrel. Qambarov died on the spot,” the source said.
Meanwhile, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, citing a local resident, notes that Qosim Abdurasulov is brother of Feraydun Abdurasulov, who was killed during a security operation in Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), on May 21, 2014.
Police said at the time that one suspected member of a criminal group was killed and two of his associates were injured during the security operation in Khorog. The two injured suspects, including Feraydun Abdurasulov, were arrested and he later died in hospital.
In the summer of 2012, Tajik government forces conducted a military operation in the region against local armed groups after a top security official was murdered there.
