The Minister of Defense in the Government of Taliban, Mulla Mohammad Yakub said that military helicopters who were hijacked in August last year by the pilots of the Afghan Air Force (Air Force) to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan should be returned. Otherwise, it will have “consequences” for the two Central Asian republics. The corresponding statement of the Taliban Defense Minister made on January 11, reports Tolonews TV channel.
“Our aircraft, which is located in Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, must be returned. We will not allow it to remain abroad or be used by other countries,” said Yakub.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Taliban, in August last year after the flight of the former government of Afghanistan, the pilots of the Afghan Air Force rich in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan more than 40 helicopters.
As the Tolonews reminds, 164 military aircraft and a helicopter have had the former Afghan Government Air Force, now only 81 remained in Afghanistan. The rest, according to the Taliban, were hijacked from Afghanistan “to various countries”. From the fall of last year, the Taliban is trying to return the aircraft of the former Afghan Air Forces, on which the servicemen of the former governments fled to neighboring countries. In addition, the Taliban has repeatedly appealed to Afghan military pilots who left the country so that they returned and began to serve in the air force created by the movement.