DUSHANBE, November 20, 2010, Asia-Plus -- The current situation on the Tajik-Afghan border does not cause serious alarm, the head of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) Saymuminm Yatimov told reporters in Dushanbe on November 9.

Commenting on a recent warning of Afghan General Dowoud Dowoud that a group of Taliban militants hiding in the neutral zone near the Afghan-Tajik border may attempt to break into Tajik territory, Yatimov assured that the situation on the border was under control.

We recall that Radio Liberty last Friday cited General Dowoud Dowoud, the chief of police of Afghan northern regions, as saying that Afghan law enforcement authorities re carrying out operation against a group of Taliban militants numbering approximately 35 people hiding in the neutral zone near the Afghan-Tajik border.  According to him, several of them were killed, including on Tajik national.  “We warned our Tajik colleagues that those Taliban militants will attempt to break into Tajik territory and ask help to annihilate them,” the Afghan general said.

In the meantime, the source at the Main Border Guards Directorate within the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Tajikistan says that Tajik border guards are always ready to repulse attempts by trespassers to break Tajikistan’s national border.