DUSHANBE (Sputnik) – Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rakhimzoda confirmed Monday the death of the leader of the Jamaat Ansarullah extremist group.
"Mullo Amriddin [real name Amriddin Tabarov] was killed in one of the operations in Afghanistan over half a year ago," Rakhimzoda told a press conference.
The Jamaat Ansarullah group was founded in 2010, and is reportedly financed by al-Qaeda. The group was banned in Tajikistan in the same year.
The country’s national security committee believes that the group made attempts to destabilize Tajikistan in 2010 and 2011, as well as carrying out a terrorist attack in the north of the country in 2010.
