Not a single inch of Afghanistan's land will be given to foreigners - Muttaqi

There is no place for foreign troops on even an inch of Afghanistan's land, the country's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said.

Responding to US leader Donald Trump's statements about the presence of Chinese troops at the Bagram air base in the country, Muttaqi said:

"The Islamic Emirate does not allow any foreign military forces to be in Afghanistan. We did not fight for twenty years in vain and the blood of hundreds of thousands of martyrs was not shed. National sovereignty is a 'red line.' The issue of deploying foreign forces is not even up for discussion," he said.

He noted that if Afghans were ready to accept it, they would have accepted the presence of the US, NATO and its allies in the country. But they fought until the last invader was driven out.