Expert names Tajikistan and Pakistan as a center for terrorist organizations

An Afghan expert stated that most members of ISIS, based in Afghanistan, undergo training in Tajikistan and Pakistan before moving to Afghanistan.

Afghan media, citing the head of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan, reported that one of the members of the ISIS-Khorasan wing, recently detained in the city of Namangan, Uzbekistan, had connections with certain individuals in Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Saydbilol Fotimi, considered an expert on international relations, stated in an interview with the Afghan television channel 1TV NEWS that most terrorists and members of ISIS are citizens of Tajikistan who have undergone training in Tajikistan and Pakistan.

According to Fotimi, the perpetrators of terrorist attacks in Moscow, California, Iran, Kandahar, as well as attacks on Chinese citizens and on Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Kabul, are Tajiks who received training in Pakistan.

In conclusion, he emphasized that Tajikistan and Pakistan are the centers of terrorist groups and should be blacklisted by the UN Security Council, rather than Afghanistan.

Fotimi stated that nothing from the territory of Afghanistan poses a threat to Tajikistan and Pakistan; on the contrary, it is from these two countries that the security threat to Afghanistan originates.

The authorities of Tajikistan have not yet responded to the statement by international relations expert Saydbilol Fotimi.

Recently, a clandestine cell of the terrorist organization “Islamic State – Khorasan Province” was uncovered in the Uzbek city of Namangan. According to the State Security Service of Uzbekistan, it was founded by a 19-year-old girl. Four individuals were taken into custody, and investigations are being conducted regarding more than 10 others, as reported by Uzbek special services.