The funamentalist Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan has congratulated the Netherlands for pulling its soldiers out of the country, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.

‘We would like to wish the citizens and government of the Netherlands all the best for having the courage to take this decision independently,’ an official Taliban spokesman told the newspaper in a telephone conversation via an interpreter.
‘We hope other countries with soldiers stationed in Afghanistan will follow the Dutch example and withdraw their troops,’ spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadii said.
Labour
And, he said, he hoped the Labour party would be part of the next Dutch government so it would have more Afghan friendly policies.
Labour’s refusal to agree to an extension of the Dutch military mission in the southern province of Uruzgan led to the government’s collapse in February.
The Dutch mission, which began in summer 2006, officially ends on August 1.