KABUL (SW) – The former head of the Afghan Air Force, Gen. Atiqullah Amarkhail, has claimed that the air space in Afghanistan is not in full control of the Afghans.
He said this in connection with the ambiguities surrounding the crash of a U.S. military plane in Ghazni province a day earlier.
The former air chief said Afghanistan had a wide-range of radars and had control over its air space in the past, but all of that vanished during the civil war in the 1990s. Amarkhail said the current radars are only able to control air space around the airports.
However, an official at the Hamid Karzai International Airport told Salam Watandar on condition of anonymity that the modern radar system acquired by Afghanistan has enabled the country to monitor the air space in a better way, but full the complete control is still with the foreigners.
Meanwhile, head of the Afghanistan Civil Aviation, Ghulam Masoum Masoumi, has rejected these notions. He said the air space has been under control of the Afghans since 2015. Masoumi went on to say that there is still need for up gradation, but the available radars in Kabul, Kandahar and other parts of the country remain fully functional and in control of the Afghans.
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