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 be ending soon, the civilian killings will also continue in Afghanistan.

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.

Once again, on Friday November 16, the Taliban killed 17 civilians mostly women and children in Farah province of Afghanistan. They were travelling to attend a wedding party, when their minibus hit a roadside bomb. And their joy turned into a tragedy. That is a big achievement for insurgents. In the same kind of incident 18 women and children were killed in Balkh province last month. Killing innocent men, women and children is un-Islamic and anti-human and condemnable in strongest words.

Although insurgents groups deny taking responsibilities of attacks where civilians are killed, for Friday's slaughter fingers are pointed at Taliban. Taliban have been using their IED tactic to target convoys of NATO and ANSF. The tactic, most of the times, takes life of civilian than military personnel. The IED tactic has proved to be deadlier for civilian than military. Despite that the insurgents never give up planting IEDs on the highways connecting Afghanistan's province and districts to each other.

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