Sunday, February 21, 2010
PESHAWAR: Rejecting President Hamid Karzai’s peace offer, the Taliban on Saturday said they would not lay down weapons unless the foreign forces leave Afghanistan.
“The entire world knows that foreign forces have invaded Afghanistan and occupied this country. They have also started the fighting. Taliban will neither lay down weapons nor will hold talks with Karzai administration even in the presence of a single foreign soldier in Afghanistan,” Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi, a purported spokesman for Taliban, told Afghan Islamic Press.
He termed the ongoing fighting as a war between the Afghans and foreigners, saying, “The ongoing war in Afghanistan is between Afghans and foreigners. The responsibility of the war lies on the foreigners and their slaves. They continue fighting in the populated areas and have sent 15000 troops to small area like Marja; and are killing civilians and trying to impose infidels on Afghans.”
Declaring Karzai as powerless ruler, he said, “Karzai himself has no power. The foreigners control everything and the nation is fighting against them.”
About the picture of a girl receiving the bodies of her 12 relatives at Lashkargah hospital and showed by the Afghan president in a joint sitting of the parliament, the Taliban spokesman said, “Karzai should have said who martyred the people. In fact neither Taliban kill the people and nor destroy their houses. These are foreigners who are bombing the houses and killing civilians everywhere as they have brought miseries to the people of Marja.”
PESHAWAR: Rejecting President Hamid Karzai’s peace offer, the Taliban on Saturday said they would not lay down weapons unless the foreign forces leave Afghanistan.
“The entire world knows that foreign forces have invaded Afghanistan and occupied this country. They have also started the fighting. Taliban will neither lay down weapons nor will hold talks with Karzai administration even in the presence of a single foreign soldier in Afghanistan,” Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi, a purported spokesman for Taliban, told Afghan Islamic Press.
He termed the ongoing fighting as a war between the Afghans and foreigners, saying, “The ongoing war in Afghanistan is between Afghans and foreigners. The responsibility of the war lies on the foreigners and their slaves. They continue fighting in the populated areas and have sent 15000 troops to small area like Marja; and are killing civilians and trying to impose infidels on Afghans.”
Declaring Karzai as powerless ruler, he said, “Karzai himself has no power. The foreigners control everything and the nation is fighting against them.”
About the picture of a girl receiving the bodies of her 12 relatives at Lashkargah hospital and showed by the Afghan president in a joint sitting of the parliament, the Taliban spokesman said, “Karzai should have said who martyred the people. In fact neither Taliban kill the people and nor destroy their houses. These are foreigners who are bombing the houses and killing civilians everywhere as they have brought miseries to the people of Marja.”
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