Friday, 1 October 2021

Russia says Tajiks, Afghans accumulating troops at shared border, urges answer

Russia's overseas Ministry studies large troop deployments and has referred to as on both sides to deescalate. US defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has voiced challenge for Afghan personnel who fled the Taliban into Tajikistan.

The Russian foreign Ministry on Thursday claimed to have reports indicating troop deployments by way of Tajikistan and Afghanistan alongside those two international locations' shared border.

"We take a look at with problem becoming tensions in Tajik-Afghan family members towards the historical past of mutual harsh statements through the leaders of the two countries. stories have regarded about the deployment of defense force by using each side to the typical border. in line with advice from the Taliban, tens of lots of particular forces contraptions were deployed within the bordering [northern] Afghan province Takhar by myself," stated international Ministry spokesman Alexei Zaytsev.

Moscow, noted Zaytsev, calls on Dushanbe and Kabul "to search for jointly suited solutions" to deescalate the present circumstance. Tajikistan's president, Emomali Rakhmon, has refused to admire the Taliban executive, accusing the neighborhood of human rights abuses.

Taliban leadership has harshly rejected such sentiments, stressful that Tajikistan stay out of Afghanistan's domestic affairs. 

On Thursday, longtime Tajik ruler Rakhmon presided over a armed forces parade near the border. The show of force adopted an identical parade near one other component to the border Wednesday.

Taliban leaders in Moscow

Taliban leadership dismissed claims of rights abuses, telling Tajikistan to stop meddling in Afghan interior affairs

Russia, which continues a military base in Tajikistan, is worried that militants as well as drug smugglers may take expertise of the unstable situation created by means of the contemporary fall of the govt in Kabul. previous this yr, Russia referred to that the Taliban managed roughly two-thirds of Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan.

consequently, Russia recently performed joint militia operations with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan within the region after the Taliban right away seized manage of Afghanistan as US and other Western forces withdrew after two decades of combating.

On Wednesday, US defense Secretary Lloyd Austin voiced situation for US-expert Afghan pilots and different militia personnel who fled into Tajikistan to break out the advancing Islamist complicated-line Taliban. The pilots, spoke of Austin, flew dozens of defense force aircraft into Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as the Taliban assumed manage of the nation. They have been detained upon arrival.

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