By Xinhua
Kabul : Taliban insurgents fighting Afghan and international troops based in Afghanistan on Sunday downplayed NATO’s renewing pledge towards Afghanistan as merely moral boosting, the fundamental outfit said on Sunday in an audio cassette released to media from undisclosed location.
“The commitment made at NATO summit in Bucharest cannot lead to the solution of problem in Afghanistan and it cannot ensure peace and stability in the country,” the audiocassette read out by a person who claimed to speak for the Taliban said.
It also added that the alliance in the past promised to world that it could bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan but all vain and still war and destruction war continuing.
In the audiocassette, the militants described both NATO and the U.S.-led Coalition forces as occupying troops, saying some 60,000 foreign troops facing Mujahidin or holy warriors in the country.
Bearing the name of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (old name of Taliban ousted hierarchy) in the audiocassette moreover said that the “occupying troops are deemed to defeat”.
Taliban early last month also issued such audio cassette, vowing to launch their so-called “spring offensive” called (Abrat) or lesson when the weather gets warm but both NATO and Afghan government played it down.
More than 60,000 foreign troops have been being deployed respectively under the leadership of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and the U.S.-led Coalition forces in war-torn Afghanistan to which long-term military existing and reinforcement have been recently promised in the NATO summit in Bucharest.