Afghanistan’s Air Force Conducts Drills For First Time After Taliban Takeover: Reports

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Afghanistan’s air force on Monday conducted the first military drills in Balkh fiefdom of the country for the first time since the Taliban took over power in August. Tolo News reported that drills took place in Afghanistan’s northern region including the US-blessed Russian Mi-17 and MD copters. The machines were handed by the United States to the ousted government. Reportedly, the crazies had prompted the aviators who fled the war- torn country after August to return to the nation and indeed promised to return them their separate jobs.

The Taliban- led government in Afghanistan has also expressed its intentions to review the state of the country’s air line and fields. The air force commander Amanuddin Mansoor was quoted by the Afghan media outlet as saying, “ In the near future we will collect information from all the airfields to see how numerous active and damaged copters we have, and also how numerous aviators we’ve who are willing to work and how numerous are not. We request that those who have left the country return and serve their people.”

As per reports, the aviators, technicians along with other military staff, who chose to remain in Afghanistan indeed as the western nations fleetly vacated thousands of Afghan citizens and their own colors, expressed amenability to work with the Taliban authorities who now head the country. The Taliban reportedly added that the officers under the former Afghan government expressed their readiness to work again in a shot to insure that the outfit remains functional.

The military drills by the Afghan air force come stray the background of Taliban- led administration fighting for transnational recognition. The crazies marched into the Afghan capital of Kabul on 15 August and claimed control of the country. It urged the abdication of former Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani, who indeed fled the nation. Meanwhile, the nation is gulfed in a socio-profitable extremity as the Taliban is banned from penetrating frozen means.

Specially, a sprinkle of nations have started developing relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban- led government. Most lately the European Union (EU) intended to continue their addresses with the Taliban delegation in Doha, according to ANI. EU prophet for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy stated that the decision to engage with the crazies has been taken to insure philanthropic access in the South Asian country.