1500 militants gather along Afghanistan-Tajikistan border

ilitants affiliated with various groups have been noted along the border with Tajikistan and inside the Afghan soil.

The issue was shared by a top-rank security official from Tajikistan during a session of the Council of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Border Forces Commanders, according to Russia's state-owned TASS news agency.

Sherali Khairulloyev, national security aide to Tajikistan's President, said one of the biggest tasks today was to prevent the transformation of Central Asian countries into a center of geopolitical confrontation of the world's largest powers at a time when the threat of international terrorism was getting bigger from one day to another.

Khairulloyev warned that the militants were clearly seeking to create hotbeds of tensions and seize state power in the regional nations through the use of force.

He said this would be happening along Afghanistan's border with CIS member-states, the length of which is 2,340 km.

In the meantime, Rajabali Rakhmonali, First Deputy Chief of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security, Commander of Border Troops, said about 1,500 militants had been concentrated on the opposite side of the border.