The United States will help build new border facilities in Tajikistan along the Central Asian country’s border with Afghanistan to respond to potential terrorist or other security threats, said the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe this week.
The facility will be constructed in Tajikistan’s southern tip and will replace an old facility to allow border guards to “deploy forces more quickly to border areas in response to threats,” the embassy said. Over the past 20 years, that about $300 million has been provided to Tajikistan to secure its border with Afghanistan.
