Tajik authorities have been attentively monitoring activities of Taliban and other Afghan non-state armed groups in areas bordering Tajikistan taking a number of measures to strengthen control over Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan.
“We have been attentively monitoring the situation in Afghani areas bordering Tajikistan. Troops deployed along the Tajik-Afghan border are enough to repulse any attempt by terrorists organizations to intrude into the country and there is no necessity to send additional forces to the Afghan border,” Muhammad Ulughkhojayev, a spokesman for the Main Border Guard Directorate of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS), told Asia-Plus in an interview.
There is no threat of direct armed intrusion into Tajikistan, said the Main Border Guard Directorate spokesman.
A source in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) says that the defense ministry also does not intend to send additional forces to the Afghan border.
Recall, Tajikistan in May 2013 created the second line of defense along its common border with Afghanistan following aggravation of the situation in the border areas of the neighboring country.
Meanwhile, Taliban attacks on the Afghan government forces along the Afghan-Tajik border have become more frequent in recent days. Thus, sixteen Afghan border police personnel were killed after Taliban attacked their outpost in the country's northern province of Takhar on June 28. Taliban militants attacked check posts of the Afghan police in Chah Ab district’s Naw Abad area, which is situated next to the Amu River on Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan.
