Leader of a banned Tajik movement killed in Afghanistan, minister says
Tajikistan says the leader of the banned Tajik movement of Jamaat Ansarullah has been killed in Afghanistan.
“The fate of mullah Amriddin is already decided. He was killed in Afghanistan, approximately six months ago. He was killed during a special operation,” Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda said at a press conference in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on Monday, as quoted by Interfax.
Amriddin Tabarov, also known as mullah Amriddin, was a field commander from the United Tajik Opposition front during the 1992-97 civil war in Tajikistan.
In the late 1990s, Tabarov opposed to an agreement on peace and national accord between the Tajik government and the opposition.
Together with militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), he moved to Afghanistan and then to Pakistan.
Later, news surfaced that a group loyal to mullah Amriddin broke away from the IMU and formed a separate group, Jamaat Ansarullah.
In May 2012, the Supreme Court of Tajikistan banned Jamaat Ansarullah as a terrorist organization financed by Al-Qaeda.
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