ISLAMABAD: The Department of Information and Communications of the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic has said that at the initiative of the Tajik side, at 21:45, a telephone conversation took place between the First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for National Security – Director of the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Ularbek Sharsheev and Commander of the Forces of the State Committee for National Security of the Republic of Tajikistan, Colonel General Rajabali Rahmonali.
A press release issued here by Kyrgyzstan embassy in Islamabad on January 27, 2022 said the Tajik side has asked for a ceasefire. However, as of 10:30 p.m., Tajik servicemen continued to periodically fire at the positions of internal troops, shootings continue in the areas of Eki-Tash, Kum-Bazar, Chir-Dobo.
A meeting of the governors of the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan and the Sughd region of Tajikistan is expected.