Sources report the presence of a small Chinese contingent at the Bagram military airfield in Afghanistan.
Kabul, April 24 - Sangar, Farzam Kazemi. The Chinese were found at this airport last October, after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. Then it was said that their task was only to restore the airport's power supply and lighting system, which had been destroyed by the Americans, after which they returned home.
A source in the Taliban Defense Ministry's Air Force Command told Sangar's correspondent in Kabul that the Chinese had videotaped the airport and drawn a map of the airport at the time and returned about three months ago.
“This is a military of more than 100 people who specialize in various fields, including technical training, piloting, repair of military equipment, and so on. One of the things they have to do under our agreement is to repair and prepare the remaining US military aircraft and helicopters for future wars,” the source said.
Earlier, two former chiefs of Afghan intelligence, Rahmatullah Nabil and Amrullah Saleh, announced the presence of foreigners at the Bagram military base. Mr. Saleh did not mention the name of the country, but Mr. Nabil did mention the name of China.
However, Chinese and Taliban officials, who see their most brilliant achievement in defeating the US and NATO aggressors, have so far said nothing about the presence of Chinese troops on Afghan soil.
Media outlets have previously reported the presence of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Corps and the Pakistani Intelligence Service (ISI) at Bagram Airport and that the Chinese were conducting military training for members of the Haqqani network, but reliable sources provide other information.
According to Sangar's interlocutors, the Taliban inherited a lot of new weapons, ammunition, and technologies from the previous Afghan government, but the Taliban does not have professional personnel to use.
“We don't need to be taught how to fight. We can do it better than the Chinese. We do not understand complex technologies, we need the personnel that they train. We have occupied Afghanistan on land, but not in the air yet. We have a common goal with China - control over the airspace of Afghanistan, ” he said.
The source declined to provide other details. Some information from other sources also proves a Chinese military presence in Afghanistan, but they are nowhere near the Soviets and the US in the past.
Amrullah Saleh, acting The head of the Islamic Republic, the fugitive government of Afghanistan, who has announced the presence of a small detachment of foreign troops, says he deliberately does not want to name any country because it will not remain a secret.
"Who are they?" What are they doing? On what basis did they come? And hundreds of other questions,” Mr. Saleh wrote.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry is very sensitive to such reports. Previously, it strongly denied foreign media reports of a military presence in Tajikistan. But the news about the presence of Chinese troops at the Afghan airport, which even intelligence officials reported back in October, remained unnoticed.
Bagram is one of three military airports (the other two are Shindand Herat and Bashin Helmand) in Afghanistan. It was built with US assistance in the early 1950s in the Bagram district of Parwan Province, north of Kabul, as a civilian airport.
In the 1980s, the Soviets turned it into a military airport and base of operations for their air force. The US Air Force and NATO have also been at the airport for the past two decades.
Bagram Airport is the code for the occupation of Afghanistan. Whoever arrived first used this airport and made it their most important operating airport. This is what China is doing now, but under what international agreement, until its presence is assessed as aggression, and what will the Taliban say about this situation, considering the expulsion of the former aggressor, the United States, from Afghanistan as their main achievement?
As they say, “the yellow dog is the brother of the jackal.”
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