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Afghanistan claims 400 people were killed in an attack in Pakistan that Kabul said hit a hospital treating drug addicts.
Pakistan previously rejected claims that they had attacked a hospital in the capital, and said they carried out attacks in Kabul and other attacks in the eastern region Afghanistan on Monday did not hit any civilian locations.
Deputy Taliban spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said 400 people were killed and 250 others were injured.
Sharafat Zaman, a spokesman for the country’s health ministry, earlier put the death toll at more than 200 in an interview with state TV, posted on X, and claimed all parts of the drug treatment facility had been destroyed.
He added that, in total, 3,000 drug users were treated at the center during the attacks.
Afghan television broadcast footage showing firefighters battling flames among the rubble of a building.
Mosharraf Zaidi, a spokesman for Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, denied the claims and said the strikes did not hit any civilian locations.
Pakistan’s Information Ministry also said in a statement that the military strikes “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure, including technical equipment storage and ammunition storage of the Afghan Taliban” and other militants in Kabul and Nangarhar.
It added that the facilities were used to attack innocent Pakistani civilians, and also said that “false and misleading” claims that the sites were attacked were intended to stir up sentiment and cover up “unlawful support for cross-border terrorism”.
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Pakistan stated that they were taking part “open war” with Afghanistan on February 27, nearly a week after its military carried out limited air strikes on February 21.
Islamabad often accuses Afghanistan of being a place of conflict The Taliban again seized power in August 2021to accommodate militants who carry out terror attacks. The Taliban denies this.
