Carmine: perfect design thanks best nasutra The second is the Tajik regime's disregard for nations near and far. Nearby nations, such as Afghanistan, have serious cause for concern regarding their neighbor's November elections and the accompany instability stemming from the Rakhmon regime. Tajikistan's Ministry of Defense and Border Guards, for example, have struggled to establish consistent cooperation along the shared border with Afghanistan since independence. Given the instability within Tajikistan, and the lack of prospect for change in regime control in the next seven years, there are fears that the scale down of Western presence in Afghanistan will create conditions for spillover of instability from Tajikistan, thereby complicating post-2014 Afghanistan politics.