Tajikistan hands over 171 prisoners to Afghanistan

The government of Tajikistan handed over more than 170 prisoners to Afghanistan in the northern Kunduz province on Monday, a local official said.

"Tajikistan authorities handed over 171 Afghan prisoners to Afghan government at the border town of Shik Khan Bandar this morning," jail director in Kunduz province Shah Mir Amirpoor told Xinhua.

This is the second bunch of detainees handed over to the Afghan government by Tajikistan over the past one week. On Thursday the Tajik government handed over 81 Afghan detainees to the Afghan administration.

Amirpoor further said that remaining Afghan detainees would be handed over to the Afghan side in the coming days. However, he did not give the number of detainees still held in Tajikistan but added all these people had been arrested on charge of drug smuggling and other crimes over the past four to five years.

Source: Xinhua