KABUL, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Taliban Thursday severely denied Paddy Ashdown who was appointed as United Nations' envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday as saying Ashdown is only a spokesman for the western countries.

    Zabihullah Mujahed, the purported spokesman of Taliban militants, said in a public statement that Ashdown does not come to Afghanistan for peace but the benefits for the America and its western alliances.

    "Since every UN envoys failed to find the real things happened in Afghanistan, we people don't trust them at all," Mujahed said.

    He added that as representatives for all the countries around the world, the United Nations could not play its role as political role well especially in Afghanistan, and Taliban will neither recognize this kind of organization nor its so-call envoy.

    Paddy Ashdown, 66, was appointed as the U.N. envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday after talking with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his role of enhancing international efforts to combat a Taliban insurgency and guide reconstruction.