KULOB, July 13, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Officers from the Kulob police department have confiscated nine assault rifles Kalashnikov over the first six months of this year, the Kulob police department chief Abdulvahhob Iskandarov said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

Besides, two Makarov pistols, eight hunting guns, ten bayonets and 1,700 bullets of different caliber have been confiscated from the population over the report period, Iskandarov noted.

According to him, 175 crimes have been registered in the city and the district of Kulob over the same six-month period; percentage of criminal cases solved for January-June was 94.6 percent.   

We will recall that the campaign to urge people to surrender weapons was launched in Tajikistan in December 1994.  Since then, more than 33,000 weapons have reportedly been confiscated or handed over to police stations.