The spokesman of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday said that the military alliance will keep on pressure on Taliban militants and described 2011 as a year with tough days in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.
"From ISAF point of view there will be no end to fighting season and we will maintain pressure on the insurgents," Brigadier- General Josef Blotz told reporters in a press conference here.
He said that ISAF and Afghan National Security Forces ANSF would keep pressure on Taliban by conducting further operations all over the country and targeting their hideouts.
"I would like to say that we are going to face more violence in 2011, there will be still fighting, the work has not been done," he responded Xinhua's query.
Afghan and NATO-led forces need to keep on pressure on the Taliban militants, he added.
In the latest raids against Taliban hideouts on Sunday night, NATO and Afghan forces have arrested several suspected militants on charge of have link to Taliban outfit that organized a suicide car bomb attack in Jalai district of Taliban birthplace Kandahar province that left six NATO soldiers and two Afghan army troopers dead on Sunday morning, he said.
"Arresting terrorists is good news which shows we are making progress," the spokesman of over 140,000-strong NATO-led forces stated.
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