DUSHANBE, June 10, 2015, Asia-Plus - Tajik border guards have confirmed the report on the killing of a drug trafficker on the Tajik-Afghan border.

Mohammad Roziqov, a spokesman for the Main Border Guard Directorate of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan, says the trespasser was illegally crossing border in Khatlon province.  “He ignored warning shots fired by Tajik border guards and they were forced to take measures to neutralize the trespasser,” Roziqov noted.

According to him, they do not have any information about family ties between the trespasser and Afghan parliament speaker.

We will recall that Afghan news agency Pajhwok Afghan News reports Afghan parliament speaker’s brother-in-law (wife’s brother) has been shot dead by Tajik border guards.

According to Pajhwok Afghan News , the man had been engaged in drug trafficking.  Siddiq Siddiqi, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, has told reporters that he was shot dead by Tajik border guards while illegally crossing the Afghan-Tajik border in Kunduz province.

25 kilograms of narcotics were reportedly found on the spot.

Pajhwok Afghan News’ office in Kunduz reports the killed officer was brother-in-law of Afghan parliament speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi.

Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi is an Afghanistan legislator.  He is currently the Speaker for the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of its bicameral National Assembly; he has been speaker since at least 2011

Born in the Imam Sahib district of northern Kunduz province in 1962, Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi is ethnic Uzbek.  He finished high school in 1979 before entering the Languages & Literature Faculty of Kabul University.  But he joined the jihad when the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Following mujahidin’s victory, he was appointed as Sher Khan Dry Port director in 1993.  Subsequently, he was appointed the commander of 3rd southern border police zone.  After the collapse of the Taliban regime, he served as the commander of border police in 2002 before being elected as Emergency Loya Jirga member the same year.  Ibrahimi was elected as Wolesi Jirga member from Kunduz in 2005.  He won a parliamentary seat for the second time in 2010 when was elected as speaker of the Wolesi Jirga.