Tajikistan embassy in Kabul refused assistance to Tajik citizen

Representatives of the Tajikistan Embassy in Kabul and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan are refraining from commenting on the difficult situation of a Tajik citizen in Afghanistan.

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Afghan media published an interview with a woman who turned out to be a citizen of Tajikistan and was living on the streets of Kabul.

A few days ago, Tolonews correspondent Obaidulla Baheer posted a photo of the woman with her Tajik passport on Twitter, noting that her passport had expired. The Afghan journalist asked Tajik officials to assist their citizen. However, a week later, no one had contacted her.

Obaidulla Baheer informed AZDA TV in a phone conversation that the Tajik citizen had been at the Tolonews office for several days seeking help, and that she was in an unstable psychological state, very frightened and worried. Baheer requested that this information be conveyed to Tajik authorities so they could reach out to their citizen and send her back to Tajikistan.

Beknazarova K.F. is a citizen of Tajikistan, born in 1968. Seventeen years ago, she married an Afghan man and moved to Afghanistan with him. Beknazarova had a son who served in the Afghan police and was killed in the war against the Taliban. Beknazarova says that her husband left her two months ago and she has nowhere else to live. For the last three days, she has been sleeping in a park. She has repeatedly approached the Tajikistan Embassy, but the embassy staff did not heed her complaints and expelled her from the embassy.

Despite the fact that Tajik authorities have repeatedly stated that the government is ready to accept hundreds of thousands of Afghan migrants, the Tajikistan Embassy is not providing assistance even to its own citizens.

AZDA TV correspondents called the Tajikistan Embassy in Kabul and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan in Dushanbe for comments, but no diplomat answered our calls.