Afghanistan on Monday accused Pakistan’s military of targeting a Kabul hospital that treats drug users in airstrikes, with Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman saying more than 200 people had been killed and all parts of the facility destroyed. Pakistan dismissed the accusation, saying the strikes precisely targeted militant installations and did not hit any civilian sites.
The alleged attack came hours after Afghan officials said the two sides exchanged fire along their common border, killing four people in Afghanistan, as the deadliest fighting between the neighbors in years entered a third week.
Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman gave the death toll during a television interview posted on X, saying all parts of the drug treatment hospital had been destroyed. Afghanistan’s government spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, also posted the video. Local television stations showed footage of firefighters struggling to extinguish flames among the ruins of a building.
Mujahid had earlier condemned the strike on X, saying it violated Afghanistan’s territory. He said most of those killed and wounded were patients undergoing treatment at the facility.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesman, Mosharraf Zaidi, dismissed the allegations as baseless, saying no hospital was targeted in Kabul.
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