ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s government accused Pakistan of targeting a Kabul hospital on Monday night in airstrikes that killed 400 people and injured around 250, while Islamabad rejected the allegations by saying it had destroyed military installations in Kabul and Nangarhar via precision strikes.
Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson of Afghanistan, wrote on social media platform X that Pakistan carried out an airstrike on Monday night at the 2,000-bed Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital. He said large sections of the hospital, which is dedicated to the treatment of drug addiction, were destroyed in the attack that killed 400 people and injured around 250.
Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar rejected the allegation, saying Islamabad had targeted the Afghan Taliban regime’s “terrorism sponsoring military installations” in Kabul and Nangarhar via precision strikes on Monday night.
Afghan rescue teams and Taliban security personnel search for bodies under the rubble of a damaged building after an airstrike hit the Secondary Rehabilitation Services, in Kabul on March 16, 2026. (AFP)
“Technical support infrastructure and ammunition storage facilities at two locations in Kabul were effectively destroyed,” Tarar wrote on social media platform X.
