Tajik president appoints former defense minister his aide
DUSHANBE. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Tajikistan's former defense minister Sherali Khairulloyev has been appointed presidential aide on security issues.
A decree to this effect has been signed by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, his press service reported on Monday.
In late November 2013, soon after the presidential elections, Rahmon issues a decree dismissing Khairulloyev from the post of defense minister. Khairulloyev, who had worked in the position for
18.5 years, was replaced with Lieutenant-General Sheralisho Mirzo, who until that appointment was commander of Tajikistan's border guard troops.
Colonel-General Sherali Khairulloyev is 64. He was born in the Dangarinsky district of Tajikistan, like Rahmon.
Sherali Khairulloyev has worked in the Tajik government for a long time. He became the country's defense minister in April 1995, when there was a civil war in Tajikistan (the civil war began in 1992 and ended in 1997). Before that appointment, he was deputy interior minister of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic and then the Republic of Tajikistan in 1988-1995.
On January 21, Rahmon issued a decree abolishing the institution of presidential advisers, who were replaced with presidential aides.
Khairulloyev was the first presidential aide appointed to this post.