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Afghanistan on March 16 accused Pakistan’s military of targeting a Kabul hospital that treats drug users in air strikes, where 200 people were killed.
Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman gave the death toll during a television interview with Afghan state media, and said that sections of the hospital were destroyed.
Afghanistan’s government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, condemned the strike, warning it was a violation of the territory of Afghanistan. In a post to X, he said that most of those killed in the strikes and wounded were patients undergoing treatment at the facility.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesman, Mosharraf Zaidi, dismissed the allegations, calling them as baseless.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Ministry of Information said in a statement that the strikes “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure including technical equipment storage and ammunition storage of Afghan Taliban” and Afghanistan-based Pakistani fighters in Kabul and Nangarhar, alleging these facilities were being used against innocent Pakistani civilians.
The strike was “precise and carefully undertaken to ensure no collateral damage is inflicted,” the ministry added, calling Mujahid’s claim “false and misleading.”
The alleged strikes came hours after Afghan officials reported that four people were killed in clashes across the border with Pakistan.
This is the third week of cross-border clashes between the two countries, and Islamabad had described the situation as “open war.”
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Afghanistan’s Taliban administration crossed a “red line” by deploying drones that injured several civilians in Pakistan last week. In response, Pakistani strikes over the weekend struck equipment storage sites and “technical support infrastructure” in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province.
Despite sharing historic ties, Pakistan and the Taliban have fallen out since the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2020.
Last year saw several rounds of deadly clashes along the 2,611km-long border, known as the Durand Line, which Afghanistan has not formally recognized, and Islamabad has repeatedly accused Kabul of backing the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or the Pakistani Taliban.
Another factor that contributed to recent escalation was a rapprochement between Afghanistan and India, a long time rival of Pakistan.
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man those pakistani are pathetic sidekicks of ussa. start a war in afghan to distract afghan from helping iran
muslim animals are killing each other now!
heheheh
unfortunately pakistan has been clearly paid off by the us to occupy the taliban and keep them from hiding iran in anyway
why is unsc quite or does it only protec usa and israel atrocities of killing others.where is trump representaative and mediator putin who always mediate after usa israel killiing or over iran uranium under the rubble,
talibaan reserve the right to destroy western pupet pakistan.whom taliban help in 2000 to 2004 straategic usa/naaato invasion to take over nuclear bombs