Omar also said the Eid festival, which began on Saturday, offered an example of sacrifice which could inspire his fighters.
An ideology based on sacrifice, such as the Taliban's, "never submits and accepts defeat", he said.
"You can see that present resistance and struggle in Afghanistan has amply proved the point."
Omar's Taliban
movement governed large parts of Afghanistan before being defeated by
the Northern Alliance and a coalition of international troops in 2001.
Omar denounces government plans
In the tape, Omar
also criticised a new plan by the Afghan government to hold tribal
councils (jirgas) on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border in an
effort to find ways to end recent violence.
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"Now
the aggressor forces in our country want to entangle our valiant nation
and tribes in their devilish trap by way of jirgas," he said.
"But I am sure that
no Muslim will participate in something that is created by the
aggressors and puppets. Those who attend will only be people who have
sold out."
"Our aggressor enemy has been defeated and now they are hatching new conspiracies for their survival," he said.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are still considering how the jirgas can be organised and who will take part.
Taliban urged to focus attacks
Omar also
instructed his fighters to be "mindful of not resorting to actions that
may result in casualties of innocent ordinary people".
"We must be more
cautious and careful in focusing the target. We should have friendly
and sincere relations with our own Muslim people."
His advice echoes
similar statements by al-Qaeda leaders who are concerned that
indiscriminate attacks by Islamist groups have undermined Muslim
support for their causes.
More than 4,000
people have been killed in Afghanistan this year, the bloodiest since
the Northern Alliance ousted the Taliban government in 2001.