In late March of this year, the control of the Afghan consulate in the eastern Tajikistan city of Khorog in GBAO (Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region) was rumored to pass over to the Taliban government albeit, the main embassy’s staff in Dushanbe are still operating under the former government’s flag. Some report, including Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe, about the Taliban government’s representatives recent visit to the city. There was a further claim about “Khorog consulate issuing Afghan passports and staff were receiving salaries from the Taliban for the last two months”. The recent statement by the acting head of the Afghan consulate in Khorog, Naqibullah Dehghanzada, dispelled all these speculations and officially confirmed the transfer of the consulate to the Taliban control.
