The Indian Air Force (IAF) has denied reports that it proposes to deploy its MiG-29 multi-role fighters at an air base in Tajikistan that India is helping build and which is likely to be completed by the year-end.

Responding to a report, an IAF spokesperson claimed that the hangars being constructed by the quasi-military Border Roads Organisation (BRO) at Aini, close to the Tajik capital Dushanbe, were not being built to accommodate air force aircraft of any sort, including trainers.

Contradicting the news report, the IAF declared it was also not helping Tajikistan retrofit its Soviet era aircraft.

The IAF denial, however, is somewhat disingenuous.

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