DUSHANBE, August 2, 2013, Asia-Plus – The fate of five residents of the northern district of Panjakent reported missing last month is still unknown.

Khoushnoud Rahmatulloyev, a spokesman for the Border Guard Directorate at the State Committee for National Security (SCNS), says negotiations with the Uzbek side are under way.

Meanwhile, Ms. Norchuchuk Eshmurodova, the wife of Mardon Bouriyev, told Asia-Plus on August 2 that her husband, their son Sulaimon and their grandson Manouchehr as well as their neighbors Isrofil Bilolov and Shohrukh Qosimov disappeared after they went to mow grass on July 10.

“I have haunted thresholds of all local law enforcement agencies but they say they have no information about them,” said Ms. Eshmurodova.

According to eyewitnesses, all those five persons were mowing grass in the Farob jamoat on July 10 when 20 Uzbek border guards detained them at around 6:00 pm and took them away.

Ms. Eshmurodova says they were detained on Tajik territory.