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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kabul has long opposed Pakistan’s unilateral construction of a fence along the Durand Line along the country’s border with Afghanistan, rejecting Pakistan’s claims that the fence prevents militants and smugglers from slipping across the border. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Sudha Ramachandran*: Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — On November 30, US Chargé d’Affaires Kevin Covert joined Colonel-General Rajabali Rahmonali, commander of the Main Department of Border Guards under the State Committee on National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan, to open a new border post at Ushturmullo in Shahrituz District on Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan, the US Embassy in Dushanbe reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe has started a new project “Patrol Field Capacity Building of the Tajik Border Troops through promotion of Regional Co-operation”. The project is supported by the Federal Republic of Germany and was launched last week in the Regional Training Centre of Khalkayor, some 230 km south of Dushanbe. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Kevin Covert, General-Colonel Saimumin Yatimov, Commander of the State Committee of National Security of Tajikistan, and General-Colonel Rajabali Rahmonali, Commander of the Tajik Border Guard Forces, on October 5 attended the handover ceremony of equipment valued at more than $8 million to the security services of the Republic of Tajikistan. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Two Tajik people were killed and one wounded in a shooting along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported on August 26. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — The U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan together with the Border Guard Service Academy (BGSA) of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan on August 17 celebrated the opening of a new ‘Practical Interdiction Training Territory’. The hands-on training facility is located at the BGSA in Almaty and was supported by the U.S. State Department’s Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program. Deputy Chief of Mission Theodore Lyng delivered opening remarks at the ceremony along with the Deputy Director of the BGSA, Colonel Daulet Zhumabekov. Participants included the U.S. Diplomatic Mission representatives and personnel of the BGSA. Continue reading
