DUSHANBE, February 12, 2015, Asia-Plus -- The issue of release of abducted four Tajik border guards, who are being held hostage in Afghanistan, has not yet been solved, an official source at the Main Border Guard Directorate of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon.

According to him, negotiations with the Afghan authorities on that subject are under way.

We will recall that four Tajik border guards were taken hostage by an unidentified group in Afghanistan on December 19, 2014.

On January 8, the Khatlon prosecutor’s office made public the identities of the abducted four Tajik border guards.  In its statement, the Khatlon prosecutor’s office confirmed earlier reports that four Tajiks had been abducted by Afghans in December.  It said they were border guards Farhod Kalonov, 19, Siroj Davlatov, 23, Tuychiboy Nourboyev, 19, and Mehroj Shodiyev, 20.

The statement also said that the commander of their military unit, Alimuhammad Dodokalonov, had been held responsible for the incident and charged with negligence.