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Morning Star

Tajik police ‘closing in’ on ex-minister over police station attack

POLICE in Tajikistan said at the weekend they were closing in on a former minister accused of plotting Friday’s attack on a police station.

Former deputy defence minister General Abduhalim Nazarzoda is believed to have fled about 90 miles from the capital Dushanbe.

Police said that they have sealed the area and are working on apprehending him.

Government statements linked Gen Nazarzoda and other alleged accomplices in Friday’s attacks that killed 17 police officers to the Islamic Revival Party, which was banned by the Justice Ministry last month. The party denied any link to the suspects.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon on Saturday to express his support for the government.

Mr Putin called Friday’s attack “an attempt to destabilise the domestic situation” in the former Soviet republic. Mr Putin will be travelling to Tajikistan to a regional security conference later this month.

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