Tajikistan,how important is it for us?

A Tajik person. Tajiks are the descendants of eastern Khorasanis , Bactrians & Sogdians..all Indo-Iranian tribes who trace their lineage to pre-Vedic times of Indo-Aryans. In mahAbhArata they're referred to as the uttara-kuru who were famous for their excellent horses and participated in our great war too. Tragedy of history that they're now Muslims that too Sunnis..only saving grace is that they're tempered by centuries of tsarist & then 70 years of soviet rule. Officially its only 40 KMs from us separated by an artificial strip called Wakhan Corridor made by the British to ward of the then Russians more than a century ago; but in reality that part of our northern border is now PoK. And its trapped in between the jihadi hotbeds of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan & Chinese Turkistan(Xinjiang). Sitting on jihadist powder keg. Afghan warlord 'Sher-e-Panjshir' Ahmad Shah Masood was an ethnic Tajik from NE Afghanistan near Wakhan Corridor, he later on became a good friend of India in fight against Taliban. He was assassinated by an ISI-Talib(posing as a TV journo with bomb in his camera) on 11/09/2001, the same day we know as the 9/11. Before Taliban took over Afghanistan India used to maintain a small air force base and a hospital in Tajikistan at Farkhor at Afghan border,now only a small army medical unit remains there. Interestingly Tajikistan borders are managed by Russian border guards. Islamic jihadi fundamentalism is on rise in Tajikistan though kept in severe check by its unitary dictatorship. If Tajikistan is compromised our security will be under grave threat.