As NATO forces have intensified their military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the volatile Southern region of Afghanistan, close to the border with Pakistan, hundreds of civilians have also been killed on either side of the border. It just looks as if the US and NATO troops are well short of a apposite strategy to tackle Islamic insurgents, which often escapes in civilian areas, and also are failing to co-ordinate with their Afghan counterparts, thereby, causing more civilian deaths in the unstable expanse. Civilian deaths in Afghanistan on an account of the self-styled ‘war on terror’ have not only received a lot of attention, in fact, severe criticism from all corners of the world. Registering his painstaking antagonism, over the increasing civil deaths across the nation, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai accused the US military and its NATO allies of carrying out ‘careless operations’ that have resulted in sadistic deaths of innocent Afghani people, including women and children. Karzai, lashing out at the coalition forces in response to over 100 civilian deaths in a week, asserted, Afghan life is not cheap and should not be treated as such. The extreme use of force, the disproportionate use of force to a situation, and the lack of coordination with the Afghan government is causing these casualties. You don’t fight a terrorist by firing a field gun from 37 kilometers away into a target. That is definitely bound to cause civilian casualties. You don’t hit a few terrorists with field guns. Meanwhile, NATO bombing and helicopter fire resulted in the deaths of at least 10 Pakistani civilians while chasing Taliban insurgents on the other side of the border into Pakistan, admitted the NATO force in Afghanistan.