\u201cDeal over even an inch of Afghanistan\u2019s soil is not possible [….] We don\u2019t need it,\u201d says Fasihuddin Fitrat
\n KABUL
\nAn Afghan Taliban government official said Sunday that a deal over Bagram air base was \u201cnot possible\u201d, after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the former US base back.
\nTrump threatened the country Saturday with unspecified punishment, just days after he raised the idea of the US retaking control of the base while on a state visit to the United Kingdom.
\n\u201cIf Afghanistan doesn\u2019t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!!!\u201d the 79-year-old leader wrote on his Truth Social platform.
\nOn Sunday, Fasihuddin Fitrat, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Defence, said \u201csome people\u201d want to take back the base through a \u201cpolitical deal\u201d.
\n\u201cRecently, some people have said that they have entered negotiations with Afghanistan for taking back Bagram Air base,\u201d he said in comments broadcast by local media.
\n\u201cA deal over even an inch of Afghanistan\u2019s soil is not possible. We don\u2019t need it\u201d.
\nBagram, the largest air base in Afghanistan, was a linchpin of the US-led war effort against the Taliban, whose government Washington toppled following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
\nUS and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) troops chaotically pulled out of Bagram in July 2021 as part of a Trump-brokered deal with Taliban insurgents.
\nThe loss of crucial air power saw the Afghan military collapse just weeks later and the Taliban sweep back to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cDeal over even an inch of Afghanistan\u2019s soil is not possible [….] We don\u2019t need it,\u201d says Fasihuddin Fitrat KABUL An Afghan Taliban government official said Sunday that a deal over Bagram air base was \u201cnot possible\u201d, after US President Donald Trump said he wanted the former US base back. Trump threatened the country Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-504232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n