Rahmon also called Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for assistance and held a council meeting.
A senior Afghan official told the news agency that hundreds of troops have been crossing the border, saying that the Taliban has cut off most of the border.
Taliban may present written Afghan peace plan next month
The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government as soon as next month, a spokesman for the group has said even as its fighters make major territorial gains in the breach left by departing foreign forces, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.
Hundreds of Afghan security force members have fled into neighboring Tajikistan in the face of Taliban advances since the United States vacated its main Afghan base, centrepiece of US and NATO might for almost two decades in the country, as part of a plan to withdraw all foreign troops by September 11.
While the transfer of Bagram airbase to the Afghan army added momentum to a Taliban drive to seize control over new districts, Taliban leaders renewed the long-stalled talks with Afghan government envoys in Qatar's capital Doha last week.
The upsurge in fighting and the flight of thousands of members of the tattered Afghan security forces have raised grave doubt about the US-backed peace negotiations, which began last year under then-President Donald Trump's administration.
Taliban shows off weapons, military
hardware seized from Afghan forces
The Taliban showed off weapons and military hardware it says were seized from Afghan forces, as the group regains ground in Afghanistan's northern districts amid a U.S. troop withdrawal from the country.
Sky News, which was granted access to the Sultan Khil military base in the Wardak province near Kabul, reported that a Taliban commander said the group had taken 70 sniper rifles, 900 guns and 65 vehicles, including Humvees.
The Taliban also showed off shipping containers that were consisted of satellite phones, grenades, mortars, bullets and a variety of other ammunition.
A number of the weapons were labeled "Property of USA Government," according to Sky News. They were reportedly supplied to the Afghan army by the U.S. to fight the Taliban.
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