Homiddin Hasanovich Sharifov (; 15 June 1947 – August 2007) was a

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

i lawyer and politician with the ruling

People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan The People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT; ; ) has been the dominant and ruling party of Tajikistan since 2000. Founded in 1994 by Abdulmajid Dostiev as the People's Party of Tajikistan, the seat of the party is located in the Palace of ...

(PDPT). He served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan from 1996 to 2006. Sharifov graduated from the Faculty of Law of the V.I. Lenin Tajik State University (today the Tajik National University). He served briefly as the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Tajikistan in 1995 before becoming the Minister of Internal Affairs in 1996. In 2001, Sharifov fired ten heads of southern district police departments after Tajik-Afghan border police failed to stop cross-border

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. He was later responsible for investigating the 2005 car bombings in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

, which led to the April 2006 arrests of four members of the

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU; uz-Cyrl-Latn, Ўзбекистон исломий ҳаракати, Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati; ) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 by Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev and former Soviet p ...

, and ten more IMU members (including three citizens of

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) in July of that year. After his term as Minister of Foreign Affairs ended, Sharifov ran for the April 2007 by-election to the Assembly of Representatives for the

Kulob Kulob or Khatlon is a city in Khatlon Region in southern Tajikistan. Located southeast of the capital Dushanbe on the river Yakhsu (a right tributary of Panj), it is one of the largest cities in the country. Its population is estimated at 106 ...

seat, facing off against Saidobrohimi Nazar of the opposition

Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan also known as the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, is a banned Islamist political party in Tajikistan. Until 2015, when it was designated a terrorist organisation, it was the only legal Islamist ...

. Sharifov won the election but died four months later. In the December 2007 by-election to fill the seat vacated by Sharifov's death, Abdurahmon Azimov of the PDPT ran unopposed after the Democratic Party failed to register a candidate. His son Ahliddin Sharifov followed him into government work and by 2017 had become the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department at

Baljuvon District Baljuvon District (; ) is a district in Khatlon Region, Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afg ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharifov, Homiddin 1947 births 2007 deaths Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Tajikistan) People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan politicians Foreign ministers of Tajikistan Interior ministers of Tajikistan Tajik National University alumni