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| Nearly 5,000 militants concentrated along Tajik-Afghan border |
| 2016-02-05 |
| The security authorities of Tajikistan have expressed concerns regarding thousands of militants concentrated along Tajikistan-Afghanistan border, it has been reported. According to the authorities, the number of militants concentrated along the border has been estimated to be up to 5,000. “Our intelligence agencies are not only closely following the situation in the inhabited localities in this and other districts of Kunduz Province, but also took additional security measures by reinforcing the Panj border detachment,” a spokesman for Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) told Russia’s TASS news agency on Wednesday. The official further added that the insurgents belonging to Taliban group, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Jamaat Ansarullah as well as few dozen natives of Tajikistan are among those gathered along the border. The official also added that Dushanbe neither “underestimated nor overestimated these groups’ danger” having sufficient forces to rebuff the attacks and also “having strategic military allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), primarily Russia.” This comes as sources close to the Secretary General of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said in mid September last year that the Russian forces may return on Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan amid fears the deteriorating security situation may affect the security of Central Asian countries. The Russian officials had earlier expressed concerns regarding threats posed to Tajikistan from the South due to deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan amid presence of terrorist groups and emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) loyalists. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 More this slightly-wet-yet-sunny, cool Guam AM ... * RELATED BIG NEWSNETWORK > [RFE] [Russia] CASH CRUNCH, [Over]STRETCHED MILITARY SPURS RUSSIAN TROOP CUTS NEAR AFGHAN BORDER. ADVANTAGE = ISIS/ISIL + aligned Hard Boyz iff Russia's economy collapses. The US-West/Allies have a vested interest in preventing anything that destabilizes Russia [+ China + India, etal.] + gives the ISIS/ISIL, Hard Boyz + Global Jihad the advantage. * SAME > [ANI] ISIS PENETRATION IN AFGANISTAN IS UNLIKE OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD: [CEO of Afghanistan] ABDULLAH ABDULLAH. ARTIC > Abdullah Abdullah = comments appear to illustrate Kabul's desire = willingness to push Afghanistan forward by allowing the Taliban to give up insurgent violence and become a full-fledged domestic Political Party-Movement involved in formal National Governance. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-05 22:55 |
| #1 Speaking if China setting up PLA Anti-Terror Units ... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-05 19:55 |