DIPLOMATIC UPROAR AND REGIONAL SECURITY

The Biden administration and CIA director William Burns are looking active for re-engaging a secret air-base in Pakistan. The United States is interested in acquiring one or two airbases in Pakistan, like surveillance, strategy against several extremist groups in Afghanistan when the allied forces will leave the country. Though, this is not the first time that the U.S. has demanded and used airbases in the territory.

The U.S president Joe Biden

After 9/11, the U.S. intervened in Afghanistan against the extremist hideouts, and Al-Qaeda Chief, Bin Laden, were top demands being agreed upon by then-President Musharraf. For years, the secret air raids were carried out into Afghanistan through the airbases in Pakistan. There was outcry politically upon the use of territory against a neighboring Muslim country but wasn't heed among high-ups. It was 26/11, a border skirmish occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military check posts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border that further led to close the U.S. secret airbases from Pakistan.

Shamsi airbase

For now, the same think tanks are on track to ink an agreement with Pakistan's military and civil leadership by using airbases after the safe withdrawal of the U.S. military in Afghanistan. This is an option for the U.S. administration, if they trust, to share intelligence information and drone technology with Pakistan and let to take the possible surveillance measures along with border areas and into Afghanistan by Pak-army. Because holding an airbase out of the territory is always considered a security threat to the host country.