REPORTS VARYPakistan denies Kabul hospital strike claims amid Taliban allegations over 400 deaths
The Afghan Taliban has accused Pakistani airstrikes from March 18 of targeting a rehabilitation clinic and killing approximately four hundred people, but Islamabad firmly rejected these assertions as false and misleading multiple times across the day's reports. Pakistan officials stated that their operations were precisely targeted at military installations rather than civilian infrastructure or drug rehab facilities located several kilometres away in Camp Phoenix.
Key Points
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1The Afghan Taliban claims a Pakistani airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul on Monday night.
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2Pakistan has forcefully rejected these allegations multiple times over the past day as false and misleading misinformation.
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3Both Pakistan's Information Ministry sources cited by Afghanistan International confirmed that targets were strictly military installations, not civilian infrastructure.
Developments
Conflicting Reports
Pakistan rejected claims of an airstrike on its targets, stating it precisely targeted Camp Phoenix while denying hitting Omid Hospital; however, the Taliban accused Pakistan of striking that drug rehabilitation center instead during their ongoing diplomatic dispute. The conflict has escalated between these South Asian neighbors following failed mediation attempts by regional powers and previous Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's capital region.
Pakistan forcefully rejected Afghan Taliban allegations that its March 16 airstrikes targeted drug rehabilitation hospitals in Kabul as baseless misinformation. The Information Ministry stated the strikes were precise operations against military infrastructure, debunking claims by citing deleted social media posts from an official handle and revealing evidence of reused images to distort facts about civilian casualties.
An Afghan publication reports Pakistan's military struck specific Taliban-linked targets near Camp Phoenix on the night of March 16 but denied hitting a nearby hospital that was allegedly set ablaze by insurgents afterward; Pakistani officials confirmed their operations focused exclusively on terrorist sites and rejected claims involving civilian infrastructure.