China to Build Outpost for Tajikistan Special Forces Near Afghan Border

China to Build Outpost for Tajikistan Special Forces Near Afghan Border
A general view of the town of Khorog, the capital of the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, on July 7, 2004. Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
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DUSHANBE—The Chinese regime will finance the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan’s police near the Tajik-Afghan border, the Central Asian nation’s parliament said on Thursday.

The post will be located in Tajikistan’s eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in the Pamir mountains, which border China’s Xinjiang region as well as the northeastern Afghan province of Badakhshan.