DUSHANBE, June 4, 215, Asia-Plus – Nasim Nabotov from Khatlon’s Farkhor district, formerly a student at Russian prestigious Moscow State University, has been killed n Syria recently.

Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports Nabotov’s parents have confirmed that information.  His father, Abdulmajid Nabotov, told RFE/RL’s Tajik Service that he knew about his son’s death from Nasim’s friends who are also in Syria.

Abdulmajid Nabotov said that he talked to his son by phone a week ago and Nasim said that he is working in the city of Adanay in Syria.  “Nasim said that he cannot return to Tajikistan,” Abdulmajid Nabotov noted.

The Farkhor law enforcement authorities reportedly confirmed that the call had come from Syria.

We will recall that Abdulmajid Nabotov told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service on March 27 that his son who was formerly a student at Moscow State University (MGU may have gone to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.

Nasim Nabotov, 28, reportedly enrolled in the economics faculty of MGU in 2008.  But by the time he was in the second year of his degree course, he had become far more interested in religion than economics

Abdulmajid Nabotov believes that, instead of devoting himself to his studies, his son had somehow become mixed up with various radical groups in Moscow.

As part of his newfound interest in Islam, Nasim started to attend mosque, his father remembered.

Eventually, Abdulmajid Nabotov decided to bring his son back to Tajikistan so that he could keep an eye on him, he told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service.

Nasim dropped out of his studies in the second year of his course and went home to his village in the Farkhor district.  There, he helped his father with the family''s bakery business and even started a family, living along with his three children.

Although Nasim had been taken out of the immediate circle of his religious friends in Moscow, he retained an interest in Islam -- and “jihad.”

“He would use the Internet a lot, and through that connection he came to the idea of jihad,” his father told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service.

Nasim Nabotov disappeared on March 5 after buying an air ticket to Moscow.