ISIS Threatens Central Asia via Afghanistan: Tajik President
Tajikistan’s president Emomali Rahmon has said that international terrorist organisations like ISIS want to turn the republics of Central Asia into religious states, trying by all means to seize power.
Tajikistan’s president Emomali Rahmon has said that international terrorist organisations like ISIS want to turn the republics of Central Asia into religious states, trying by all means to seize power.
Addressing a plenary session of the high-level conference “International and regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism and its sources of financing, including drug trafficking and organized crime” in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, he said: “If we bear in mind our region, then it should be noted that the actions of extremist and radical groups also pose a serious threat to the countries of Central Asia.”
“They disguise their mercenary goals with religious slogans and gather their supporters under the banner of the struggle for social justice. However, in reality, they aim to change the secular structure of the region’s states and use all means and methods to seize political power,” said Emomali Rahmon, according to EurAsian Times.
Tajik president further said that currently, the actions of the forces of international terrorism and extremism have shaken the foundations of international security, have caused an unstable situation in various regions of the world and the emergence of threats to the lives and well-being of ordinary citizens.
He underlined that a certain number of members of the international terrorist network, including the Islamic State (ISIS) is being transferred to the territory of Afghanistan for a specific purpose.
“Terrorists cannot be divided into their own and others, reformers and radicals, good and bad,” he added.
