Afghanistan claims 400 people have been killed in a Pakistani attack that hit a hospital treating drug addicts in Kabul.
Pakistan It had previously denied claims it had attacked a hospital in the capital, following its strike in Kabul and other strikes in the east. Afghanistan No civilian sites were hit on Monday.
Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the Taliban, said 400 people were killed and 250 wounded.
Sharafat Zaman, a spokesman for the country’s health ministry, earlier in an interview with state TV gave a death toll of more than 200, posted on X, and said all parts of the drug treatment facility had been destroyed.
A total of 3,000 drug users were receiving treatment at the center at the time of the attack, he said.
Afghan television stations posted footage of firefighters struggling to put out the blaze amid the rubble of the building.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesman Musharraf Zaidi denied the claims and said the strikes did not hit any civilian targets.
Pakistan’s information ministry said in a statement that the military’s strikes in Kabul and Nangarhar “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure, including storage of technical equipment and ammunition storage of the Afghan Taliban.”
It said the “false and misleading” claims that these facilities were being used against innocent Pakistani civilians and that the site had been hit were intended to inflame sentiment and cover “illegal support for cross-border terrorism”.
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Pakistan declared that it was within itself “Open War” with Afghanistan on February 27, almost a week after its military conducted limited airstrikes on February 21.
Islamabad often accuses Afghanistan, where The Taliban regained power in August 2021Harboring terrorists who carry out terrorist attacks. The Taliban denies this.
