{"id":553,"date":"2025-09-19T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:14:42","slug":"afghanistan-rejects-trumps-call-to-regain-bagram-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan rejects Trump\u2019s call to regain Bagram Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The United States seeks to regain control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said on Thursday during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but an Afghan official dismissed the need for any US presence.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The historic Soviet-built airstrip was the main base for American forces in the mountainous South Asian nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001, until their 2021 withdrawal led to a takeover by the Islamist Taliban movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get it back,&#8221; Trump said of Bagram, citing what he called its strategic location near China. &#8220;We want that base back.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kabul said it was not open to any such deal, however.&#8221;Afghanistan and the United States need to engage with one another &#8230; without the United States maintaining any military presence in any part of Afghanistan,&#8221; Zakir Jalal, an Afghan foreign ministry official, posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China respects Afghanistan&#8217;s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, a spokesperson of its foreign ministry said, urging all parties to play a constructive role for regional peace and stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The future and destiny of Afghanistan should be held in the hands of the Afghan people,&#8221; Lin Jian told a regular press conference on Friday, when asked about Trump&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I want to stress that stoking tensions and creating confrontation in the region wins no popular support.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engaging with Kabul to free citizens wrongly detained abroad, U.S. officials held talks on Saturday with Afghan authorities regarding Americans held in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adam Boehler, the Trump administration&#8217;s special hostage envoy, and Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan, met the Taliban&#8217;s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States seeks to regain control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said on Thursday during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but an Afghan official dismissed the need for any US presence. 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