Civilian casualties have spiked by 10 percent in two month says Dr. Seema Samar, Head of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Addressing a gathering marking the 11th anniversary of AIHRC's creation, Seema Samar told reporters in Herat City that 366 civilians were killed during the period between March 21 to May 20, 2013, indicating 10 percent rise, compared with figures for the corresponding period in the previous year. She said the government was required to prepare the ground for bringing peace to the country.

After eleven years of counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan – the main purpose of which was to safeguard civilians in Afghanistan and Western countries from the menaces of terrorism – Afghan population is increasingly falling victims of roadside and suicide bombings and other sorts of insurgency. Disappointing fact is that, civilian casualties in one year have always been higher than the year preceding it – considering the UN data on civilian killings in Afghanistan for the last six years.

Killing of civilians has gone increasing year by year since the ouster of Taliban from government. The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) has caused the death of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from insurgents – majorly responsible - and foreign military action, as well as the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of Afghan civilians indirectly as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of medical treatment, crime and lawlessness resulting from the war. As the war seems not to be ending soon, the civilian killings will also continue in Afghanistan.

The IED tactic has proved to be deadlier for civilian than military. Despite the insurgents never give up planting IEDs on the highways connecting Afghanistan’s province and districts to each other. The insurgent groups such as Taliban openly take responsibilities of deadly attacks where civilians are killed and yet to President Hamid Karzai they are ‘annoyed brothers.’ Taliban have been using their IED tactic to target convoys of NATO and ANSF. The tactic, most of the times, takes life of civilians than military personnel.

Islam does not allow killing of innocent humans but Taliban have violated that for thousands of times although they have been blowing the trumpets of following Islamic codes and Shariah. Continued killing of civilians by Taliban show their real face and does much to foster hatred against them in the hearts of Afghan people.