Saimumin Yatimov: The trip to Kabul was “substantive”

The head of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan (SCNS) has traveled to Afghanistan with the aim of freeing its agents.

According to sources from Azda.tv, SCNS head Saymumin Yatimov visited Kabul on an official trip in August 2024. Sources reported that the purpose of his visit was to strengthen bilateral relations with the Taliban security forces and to secure the release of some Tajik special service agents detained by the Taliban.

Previously, some experts claimed that prior to this trip, Taliban security forces, which have good relations with the “Ansarullah” group (now the Taliban Movement of Tajikistan), had detained several Tajik special service agents over the past three years who were operating undercover within the ranks of “Ansarullah” and ISIS-Khorasan.

The Afghan news agency “Afghanistan International” reported in its special coverage of Saymumin Yatimov’s visit that he “met with Taliban security forces during his visit to Kabul.”

“Sources in diplomatic services told ‘Afghanistan International’ that Saymumin Yatimov, a senior officer of Tajikistan’s intelligence service, went to Kabul on a mission from the president of that country, Emomali Rahmon. ‘Upon returning to Dushanbe, he described his trip as ‘substantive,’” the report states.

The visit of the head of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan, Saymumin Yatimov, to the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and his meeting with Taliban security forces occurred after the Afghan consulate in the city of Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan, was handed over to the Taliban, and the office of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, led by Ahmad Masood, was closed in Dushanbe.