Dushanbe / Kabul: Tajikistan President on Monday ordered a mobilization of 20,000 military reserves to increase the border with Afghanistan after more than 1,000 Afghan security personnel escaped across the border in response to the progress of Taliban militants.
The intersection on Sunday underlines the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, where foreign troops approach full withdrawals after 20 years of war and with peace negotiations stalled.
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon made an international busy life to discuss the situation with allies in the region, including Russian colleagues Vladimir Putin whose country had a large military presence in Tajikistan.
Putin convinced Rakhmon that Moscow would support the former Soviet Republic to stabilize its borders with Afghanistan if needed, both directly and through regional security blocks, Kremlin said in a statement.
Russia operates its largest military base abroad in poor Central Asian countries, where it is a tank station, helicopter, and land aircraft.
Tajikistan wanted to establish a camp for potential refugees from Afghanistan, government sources told Reuters earlier on Monday.
Hundreds of members of the Afghan security forces have fled the progress of Balban Islam Swift in the north.
But Sunday retreat was the biggest confirmed, only came two days after the United States officially emptied the main bagram airbase in Afghanistan as part of a plan to attract all foreign troops on September 11.
Taliban took over six main districts in the north.
Badakhshan Province, which borders Tajikistan and China, after 1,037 Afghan warriors fled on the border with Tajikistan permits, the service guard said.
On Sunday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke with Rakhmon by telephone to discuss his development.
“Special attention is given to the escalation of situations in the northern region of Afghanistan adjacent to Tajikistan,” said the President of the President of Tajik in a statement.
It added that Rakhmon expressed concern about “forced crossing” by members of Afghan security forces.
Rakhmon was also called a fellow Central Asian leader Shavkat Mirziyoyeev from Uzbekistan and Kassim-Jomart Tokayev from Kazakhstan and held a Security Council meeting, his office said.
‘There is no place to go’ A senior Afghan official confirmed hundreds of crossings to Tajikistan but did not know the exact figure.
“The Taliban cuts all the way and these people have no place to go but to cross the border,” he told Reuters.
Last week, US forces emptied Bagram, bring effective ends for the longest war in US history, as part of understanding with the Taliban, against who had been fighting for for overthrowing them from power after Al Qaeda’s attack on September 11, 2001.
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The air base was a vital military center for the Soviet Union after invading Afghanistan in 1979.
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The Taliban had left the attack on Western forces but continued to target rapid government and security installation throughout the world.
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Peace talks between the two parties remain inconclusive.
Zabihullah Atiq, a member of parliament from Badakhshan, told Reuters that the Taliban had won 26 of the 28 border provincial districts – three of them were handed over to the rebels without fighting.
Afghan security forces members used various routes to escape, he said, but added that the Taliban won dozens of personnel in the Ishkashem district where the Tajik border forces blocked every intersection.
Tajik officials said they let 152 people from Ishkashem, but did not comment on whether there was a rejected entry.
Afghanistan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, in Moscow on Monday for security talks, said government forces did not anticipate the Taliban offensive but would counterattack.
Moscow said the Russian consulate in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in North Afghanistan was suspending operations on security issues, reported the Tass news agency.