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Taliban urge Uzbekistan to return helicopters that passed the country after the government’s collapse 

Deputy head of the interim Taliban government, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has called on Uzbekistan to return the planes and helicopters in which Afghan pilots fled the country after the fall of the previous government, the publication “Afghanistan” reports.

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It should be recalled that on November 30, a delegation of Uzbekistan headed by the special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Ismatulla Irgashev, visited Kabul and held meetings with members of the interim government of Afghanistan.

According to the MFA press service, negotiations were held with the leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministries of Foreign and Internal Affairs, Public Works, Economy and Energy. The current situation in the country, efforts to provide the people of Afghanistan with humanitarian and other assistance, and the implementation of large infrastructure projects in the fields of energy and transport were discussed.

Reportedly, Afghan pilots hijacked 25% of the country’s aviation equipment to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Among the Afghans who were kept in the camp in Termez, 15 pilots flew in light A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft, 11 pilots flew in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, 12 pilots flew in MD-530 helicopters and many pilots on Mi-17 helicopter.

They all left Afghanistan in the last hours before the Taliban seized power. 46 planes managed to take off from the airports of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul. One of them collided with an Uzbekistan Air Force plane.

Later it became known that all Afghans who fled from the Taliban regime left the territory of Uzbekistan.

“On September 12-13, all Afghan citizens who were on the territory of Uzbekistan were evacuated to another country,” the MFA spokesman Yusup Kabuljanov said.

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