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Category Archives: Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations

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Afghans and Tajiks mix in rare but vital border bazaar

17th May, 2024 · admin

AFP: For Afghans living under Taliban rule, a Saturday market is a rare chance to cross the border into neighbouring Tajikistan and pick up food and household goods. The popular bazaar in the small town of Kalai-Khumb — about six hours’ drive east from the Tajik capital Dushanbe — has reopened after being shut down

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Posted in Economic News, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations |
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Regional Governments Seen Struggling to Control IS-Khorasan

29th March, 2024 · admin

By VOA Afghan Service March 29, 2024 WASHINGTON — Last week’s concert hall massacre in Russia demonstrates not only the capacity of Islamic State-Khorasan to stage complex attacks beyond its base in South-Central Asia, but also the inability of the Taliban and regional countries to counter its threats, experts say. The Islamic State group claimed the attack

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Posted in Iran-Afghanistan Relations, ISIS/DAESH, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban Security Failure, Taliban vs. ISIS |
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Tajikistan Detains Several People In Connection With Deadly Moscow Attack

29th March, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service March 29, 2024 DUSHANBE — Tajik authorities detained nine people this week in connection with the March 22 deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, local media reported on March 29, citing a security source. All nine were reportedly detained by the state security service in the Vahdat district in Dushanbe outskirts on

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Posted in ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, US aiding ISIS |
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Central Asians in Russia Face Backlash After IS-K Terror Attack

27th March, 2024 · admin

By Navbahor Imamova VOA News March 27, 2024 WASHINGTON — Russian media and analysts are reporting a spike in hate crimes and violence against migrants from Central Asia following last week’s terror attack on a Moscow concert hall, which has led to the arrests of seven people of Tajik origin. Responsibility for the attack, which killed at

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Posted in Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia |
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Iran, Tajikistan Concerned By Drug Trafficking From Afghanistan

17th March, 2024 · admin

Tolo News: The head of Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency stated that drugs from the large reserves in northern Afghanistan are being trafficked to Central Asian countries and the European Union.  “The threat to Central Asian countries, especially those bordering Afghanistan, is gradually increasing because the methamphetamine discovered in the region is produced in Afghanistan,” said

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban and Drugs |
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Under Sanctions, Taliban Pay Debts, Seek More Electricity From Neighbors

16th February, 2024 · admin

Akmal Dawi VOA News February 15, 2024 Afghanistan has cleared its outstanding electricity debts to three Central Asian neighbors and is negotiating for an increase in energy supplies, a move that could signal the Taliban government is moving toward economic stabilization. Landlocked Afghanistan relies heavily on energy imports, obtaining more than 70 percent of its

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Posted in Central Asia, Economic News, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban |
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Tajikistan: Persistent Drug Trafficking Challenges Despite Taliban’s Claims

5th February, 2024 · admin

8am: The Drug Control Agency of Tajikistan has refuted the Taliban’s assertion of a decline in drug trafficking from Afghanistan, stating that there is no concrete evidence to support such a reduction. According to a report from the TASS news agency on Monday, February 5th, the Drug Control Agency of Tajikistan (DCA) conveyed that recent

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Posted in Drugs, Economic News, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Taliban and Drugs |
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While Small in Number, Tajik Fighters an Asset for Islamic State-Khorasan

1st February, 2024 · admin

Roshan Noorzai Mohammad Ahmadi VOA News January 31, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Iranian government has traced this month’s twin suicide bombings in Kerman city to ethnic-Tajik fighters of the Islamic State Khorasan Province who, experts say, are “fairly small” in number but play “an important part” in the group’s military activities. The Afghanistan-based branch of the

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Posted in Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH War on Muslims, Jamaat Ansarullah |
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Terrorists from Tajikistan Have Become a Global Menace

27th January, 2024 · admin

8am: Over the last decade, Tajikistan’s foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) have brought their homeland under negative limelight on numerous occasions. The most notorious of them all is Gulmurod Khalimov, who became the IS Minister of War after joining the group in 2015. Before becoming a high-ranking terrorist, he served as the head of the special

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Posted in Central Asia, ISIS/DAESH, Security, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia |
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Tajik Militant Commander Under Taliban Wanted In Dushanbe Vanishes In Afghanistan

9th January, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service January 9, 2024 Tajik militant Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon), who is wanted in Dushanbe on terrorism charges, disappeared in Afghanistan months ago, his relatives and friends said on January 8. After taking over Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban rulers appointed Sharifov, 30, to oversee districts along the Tajik-Afghan border. Fighters of

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Posted in Central Asia, Tajikistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Destabilization of Central Asia, Jamaat Ansarullah |
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