Yaftali Sufla District

But they popped up again in the middle of this chaos to assassinate a senior Taliban official.

And then we see, uh, you know, locals starting to get really angry, particularly in Yaftal, both with the administration, the Taliban, and all this going on, because it means that all sides are cracking down at the moment.

And I think there's a whole bunch of other incidents which have been just building up and happening over the last couple of weeks, and it's really putting Tajikistan in a tough position where, you know, if I'm a policy advisor in Dushanbe and I go to Rahmon and say, "Hey, look, we should help these resistance guys.

A lot of them are ethnic Tajiks.