NATO and Taliban may be shying away from a peace process but they had no inhibition to trade in barbs and indulging in no hold barred spat, in a burst of virtual conversations. The first salvo was fired by the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF), whose spokesman tweeted:

"Re: Taliban spox on #Kabul attack: the outcome is inevitable. Question is
how much longer will terrorist put innocent Afghans in harm's way?"

 The Taliban who, when in rule, barred modern technology, including television and music players fired back. Taliban tweeter Abdulqahar Balk (@ABalkhi) wrote:

"@ISAFmedia i dnt knw.u hve bn pttng thm n 'harm's way' fr da pst 10 yrs.Razd whole vllgs n mrkts.n stil hv da nrve to tlk bout 'harm's way"

(In plain English, it means: I didn't know. You have been putting them in harm's way for the past 10 years. Razed whole villages and markets. And still have the nerve to talk about harms way)

ISAFmedia, which generally provides dry updates in military language on the security situation in Afghanistan, wrote back:

"Really, @abalkhi? Unama reported 80% of civilians causalities are caused by insurgent (your) activities."