In less than a week, eight NATO soldiers have been killed in various incidents across Afghanistan. That number includes six American soldiers who were killed by an improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday July 08, 2012. Also over the past few days, dozens of innocent civilians have lost their lives in attacks launched by insurgents.

Majority of the soldiers who have lost their lives in the US-led counter-terrorism war in Afghanistan are Americans. Since the beginning of 2012, according to icasulaties, the US alone has lost its 166 soldiers. Meanwhile, the total number of US soldiers killed over the last decade in this war-torn country has reached to 2030. The level of sacrifice that has been made in the last decade both by the international community and Afghanistan has unfortunately borne no sweet fruit as terrorism has grown and no one is safe at any corner of this country.

Growing graph of military and civilian killings is the result of failure after failure in countering insurgency. The Afghan government can be held responsible majorly for failures in Afghanistan. Mr. Karzai has maintained a soft heart for Taliban and most often call them as his discontented brothers. By such motives, he has tried to gloss over the activities of the Taliban regime that came into existence by standing over the dead bodies of innocent Afghans.

The insecurity is to further escalate as Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will move ahead to assume full defense responsibilities of Afghanistan and the US-led NATO forces will completely withdraw from here. Withdrawal of foreign troops is what the Taliban and other groups of insurgents are waiting eagerly for. As the NATO is in the process of handing over Afghanistan's security responsibilities to ANSF, the Taliban are preparing themselves for post-2014 scenario. Reportedly, thousands of their fighters are undergoing intensive training in Pak-Afghan border regions.

Without having defeated the Taliban, there is no surety that Afghanistan will not reverse towards its 90's and Taliban will not be able to regain government. To save the sacrifices made in blood and treasure by the international community and Afghans for a stable and prosperous Afghanistan, the Taliban insurgents have to be defeated. But regretfully, the destination towards which Afghanistan is moving today put it at the menace of collapse and return Taliban regime.