(KUNA) -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) said insurgency has increased sharply in Afghanistan this year with 195 people killed by 78 suicide attack during that period, said NATO spokesman Major Luke Knitting while speaking at a news briefing here on Sunday. The spokesman said, in the past few months, violence has increased sharply across the country. Analysts believe the Taliban are using the tactics being used by terrorists in Iraq.| “The Afghan spy agency said the bombers were trained by Uzbek, Chechen and Arab trainers in neighbouring Pakistan and sent into Afghanistan to carry out attacks against Afghan and foreign troops.” |
Major Knitting said the NATO forces had beefed up security and their capability to deal with the suicide attacks was growing day by day. He said the militants were using cars and bikes in bombing which often result in civilian casualties. Regarding the progress achieved by the forces from the multinational military alliance to discourage suicide attacks, the spokesman said they had arrested 13 would-be bombers and handed them over to the Afghan government. The NATO forces have formally taken charge of command of the foreign troops across Afghanistan on October 5.