December 04, 2025
BNE Intellinews - Who’s killing Chinese workers on the Afghan-Tajik frontier?
Someone in northern Afghanistan near the Tajik border is targeting Chinese workers just across the river inside Tajikistan.
On November 26, three Chinese miners were killed in an attack in which assailants used a drone equipped with firearms and grenades, while on November 30, two Chinese roadworkers were shot dead.
It is difficult to say who is behind the killings or pinpoint their motive, but the violence has led to the highest-level contact between authorities of Tajikistan and Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in August 2021.
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Bruce Pannier is a Senior Fellow at the Turan Research Center.