KABUL: Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban authorities said on Saturday they were working with neighbouring Tajikistan to investigate a border clash earlier this week that killed five people, including two Tajik guards.<\/p>\n
Tajikistan announced on Thursday that three members of a \u201cterrorist\u201d group had crossed into the Central Asian country \u201cillegally\u201d at Khatlon province, which borders Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Tajik security forces killed the trio, but two border guards also died in the clash, the Tajik national security committee said. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Saturday that \u201cwe have started serious investigations into\u201d the recent \u201cincidents\u201d on Tajik soil.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to the foreign minister of Tajikistan and we are working together to prevent such incidents,\u201d he told an event in Kabul.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are worried that some malicious circles want to destroy the relations between two neighbouring countries,\u201d the minister added, without elaborating.<\/p>\n
Tajikistan shares a mountainous border of about 1,350 kilometres with Afghanistan and has had tense relations with Kabul\u2019s Taliban authorities, who returned to power in 2021.<\/p>\n
Unlike other Central Asian leaders, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, who has been in power since 1992, has criticised the Taliban and urged them to respect the rights of ethnic Tajiks in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
At least five Chinese nationals were killed and several wounded in two separate attacks along the border with Afghanistan in late November and early December, according to Tajik authorities.<\/p>\n
According to a UN report in December, the jihadist group Jamaat Ansarullah \u201chas fighters spread across different regions of Afghanistan\u201d with a primary goal \u201cto destabilise the situation in Tajikistan\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KABUL: Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban authorities said on Saturday they were working with neighbouring Tajikistan to investigate a border clash earlier this week that killed five people, including two Tajik guards. Tajikistan announced on Thursday that three members of a \u201cterrorist\u201d group had crossed into the Central Asian country \u201cillegally\u201d at Khatlon province, which borders Afghanistan. Tajik […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14639,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions\/14639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}