[1] After finishing high school he attended the faculty of economics of Tajik National University, where he developed an interest in business.

After Kuvvatov and his family wanted to leave to go the nearest hospital, he was shot dead with a single bullet to his head around 22:30 in the Fatih district of Istanbul.

[10] Rahmatullo Zoyirov, chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan, told RFE/RL's Tajik Service that Kuvvatov's killing had been pre-planned.

[12] Kuvvatov's wife, Kumriniso Hafizova, told RFE/RL on 8 March that she, her husband and their two sons had been invited for dinner at the house of Sulaimon Qayumov, a 30-year-old Tajik citizen.

When they were outside, an unidentified Tajik-speaking man approached Kuvvatov from behind, fired a single shot to his head and immediately fled the scene.

[15] Some observers have drawn parallels between the murder of Kuvvatov and the late February 2015 assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.

[16] Speaking to journalists on 6 March, Muhiddin Kabiri, the leader of the opposition Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, compared the killing to the recent deaths of Nemtsov and Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

[17] Rajabi Mirzo, an independent political analyst, described Kuvvatov's death as a "shameful and terrible event" that could be compared with Nemtsov's killing.

[12] On 26 February 2016 the Istanbul Criminal Court sentenced Sulaimon Kayumov to life imprisonment for the murder of Kuvvatov.