Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon accused a jailed opposition group of attempting to build an ISIS and triggering civil war in the secular country, in a speech shown on state TV on Friday.
In the address marking the ex-Soviet country’s 25th independence anniversary, Rakhmon blasted the “destructive plans” of an ISIS recently banned as a “terrorist” group by the Government.
“Malicious forces and misguided people working to the plans and instructions of their foreign masters... Planned to build an ISIS, and dragged Tajikistan into the vortex of a fratricidal war,” Rakhmon said.