DUSHANBE, May 28, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Festive events are organized at border units across the country to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Tajik border troops.

“Various sports competitions, concerts, quizzes and meetings with veterans of border troops are being organized today at the border unit across the country,” Mohammad Ulughkhojayev a spokesman for the Main Border Guard Directorate of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS), told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, the main festive events will take place at the Training Center in the Roudaki district and Border Troops commander Rajabali Rahmonali and SCNS chief Saymumin Yatimov will attend the event at the Training Center to congratulate Tajik border guards on their professional holiday.  

We will recall that a military parade was held in Dushanbe on May 26 last year on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of adopting the decree on the establishment of the border guard service.  More than 10,000 servicemen were on the military parade that took place in Dushanbe’s Dousti Square.

The Main Border Guard Directorate of Tajikistan is an agency of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and the anniversary of the founding of Tajik Border Troops has been celebrated regularly since May 28, 1994.  This annual event is known as the Border Guards Day.