ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: The representatives of twelve civil society organizations, condemned the US-led coalition airstrikes and bombings of Afghan cities as a reprisal to the terrorist attacks on September 11 in New York and Washington.

In a statement here on Friday the civil society representatives said that the military action of the world’s mightest army against the world’s poorest nation, claimed to be targeted, had already resulted in a human disaster.

The representatives of Aurat Foundation, Christian Study Centre, Hawwa, The Network, Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, Rozan, Sach Sahil, SDPI, Sungi, Uks, Women’s Action Forum, further said that the people of Afghanistan should not be punished for the policies of the Taliban regime.

They asked the US and its allies to find out the root cause of terrorism and change their world perception and policies tpwards the Third World, specially the Middle East.

The Afghan crisis should be resolved politically, through a consultative process involving all the ethnic groups of Afghanistan, they said.