<strong><a href="http://dailythepatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/KABUL.jpg"><img class="imgspace alignleft wp-image-10487 size-full" src="http://dailythepatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/KABUL.jpg" alt="KABUL" width="800" height="480" /></a></strong>KABUL: The Afghan Taliban on Thursday condemned the publication in France of further anti-Islam cartoons and lauded last week's deadly Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris. <p style="color: #444444;">A statement from the group said they “strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action and consider its perpetrators, those who allowed it and its supporters the enemies of humanity”.</p> <p style="color: #444444;">The statement released in English also hailed gunmen who killed the magazine staff on January 7 and said world leaders should prevent such cartoons from being released.</p> <p style="color: #444444;">They said publication must be stopped to prevent “further harming world peace”, adding that to do otherwise would mean “the beliefs and sacrosanctity of over a billion people is desecrated and the world is pushed further into the fire of hatred and war”.</p> <p style="color: #444444;">Hooded gunmen had stormed the Paris offices of a weekly satirical magazine, killing at least 12 people, including two police officers in the worst militant attack on French soil in recent decades.</p> <p style="color: #444444;">While the attack on <a style="color: #4444aa;" href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1156120">Charlie Hebdo sparked global</a> outrage, dozens of people in <a style="color: #4444aa;" href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1156760">Peshawar</a> and central Afghan province of Uruzgan paid tribute to the brothers who carried out the murders.</p> <p style="color: #444444;">The attack was <a style="color: #4444aa;" href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1156967">claimed by the Al Qaeda in Yemen.</a></p> <p style="color: #444444;">Charlie <a style="color: #4444aa;" href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1156564">Hebdo had announced</a> that it will defiantly feature more caricatures targeting Islam.</p>
