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"This is my 'last warning' to the NATO forces. No a lot more air strike on the houses of Afghans will likely be allowed," Karzai told reporters at a news conference in his fortified Palace here in Afghan capital Kabul.
The Afghan leader produced these comments within the wake of killing of 14 civilians in an air strike Saturday in Taliban hub southern Helmand province.
"Afghans suffer from both the terrorism and also the war against terrorism," the President stated, noting on the very same day when two leading police officials had been killed by Taliban militants in north of the country, and another 11 innocent youngsters had been killed by NATO airstrike in the south on Saturday.
Even so, NATO commanders have apologized for the deaths, stressing nine civilians were killed when the troops came under attack from some houses by Taliban insurgents and that troops retaliated which left nine dead in Helmand, some 555 km south of capital Kabul.
The deaths of Afghan civilians by NATO-led troops during operations against Taliban have long been a contentious problem between the Afghan government and U.S. and NATO forces in the insurgency-hit country.
Afghan officials had in the past stressed such deaths would further undermine the war against Taliban and terrorist groups and inflame an anti-foreign sentiment within the country.
The Afghan leader, under strain from Afghan public, has long been criticizing the NATO and U.S. forces over their erroneous killing of civilians because the war against terror begun in late 2001.
"No far more plea and excuse will be accepted over the air attacks and that aerial bombing of Afghan houses ought to be stopped," Karzai.
"If such attack repeats and continues then it could be indicative of arbitrary act by occupying forces," Afghan President further stated.
"If it really is repeated Afghanistan has lots of methods to stop it," Karzai stated adding the issue will be the major subject of his meeting with NATO military leaders in coming days in Kabul.
The move came only days soon after President Karzai ordered his Defense Ministry to avoid foreign troops from uncoordinated and arbitrary operations and bring "night raid operations" under its control.
"The president emphasized that special operations and night raids must be independently conducted only by Afghan troops," a statement released by his office on Sunday said.
The spokesman of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday stated ISAF fully supports President Karzai's intent to have Afghan forces increasingly within the lead for operations.
"We are working together to move from always having Afghan force participation, as we do now, to operations being Afghan-led. " ISAF spokesman Brigadier-General Josef Blotz told reporters in a weekly press conference on Monday.
"We know we would not have seen the gains and progress created to date with out the conduct of targeted, intelligence-driven night operations," Blotz stated, emphasizing "night raid operations were extremely needed element of ongoing counter-insurgency camping against Taliban insurgents."
A total of 12 people had been killed and over 60 injured when a demonstration to condemn a night operation in the country's north Takhar province turned violent on Might 18.
The angry protesters alleged the four folks which includes two females who had been killed during night raid attack conducted by foreign forces on May 17 had been civilians, nevertheless, ISAF stated the operations was jointly conduced and all killed people were armed insurgents.
Presently far more than 140,000 NATO, with practically 100,000 of them Americans have been stationed within the country curbing Taliban-led insurgency in its 10th year.
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