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\nAfghan rescue teams and Taliban security personnel search for bodies under the rubble<\/p>\n
At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan \u2060on a rehabilitation hospital in the Afghanistan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the Taliban government said.<\/p>\n
Pakistan rejected the claim as false and misleading and said it “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure”.<\/p>\n
A deputy spokesman for the Taliban said the air strike targeted the 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital.<\/p>\n
“Large parts of the hospital have been destroyed, and there are fears of heavy casualties,” he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, the number of those killed has so far reached 400, with up to 250 others \u200cinjured.”<\/p>\n
\nAfghan rescue teams and Taliban security personnel search for bodies under the rubble<\/p>\n
Rescue teams were at the scene \u2060working to control the fire and recover the victims, he added.<\/p>\n
Reuters could not verify the casualty numbers.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani Information and Broadcasting Ministry said the Afghan Taliban claim was “misreporting of facts”.<\/p>\n
In an overnight post on X, it said that Pakistan targeted military installations and “terrorist support infrastructure” including technical equipment storage and ammunition storage of the Afghan \u200cTaliban and Pakistani Taliban militants in Kabul and Nangarhar that were being used against Pakistani civilians.<\/p>\n
No collateral damage – Pakistan<\/p>\n
“Pakistan’s targeting is precise and carefully undertaken to ensure no \u2060collateral damage is inflicted,” the post said.<\/p>\n
“This misreporting of facts as drug rehabilitation facility seeks to stir \u200csentiments, covering illegitimate support to cross-border terrorism.”<\/p>\n
Fierce fighting between the south Asian neighbours, who were close \u2060allies earlier, erupted \u200clast month with Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan that Islamabad said targeted militant strongholds.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan called the strikes a violation of its sovereignty that targeted civilians and launched its own attacks.<\/p>\n
Both sides have claimed to have inflicted heavy damage on the other but independent verification has not been possible.<\/p>\n
Pakistan \u2060says Afghanistan provides a safe haven to militants launching attacks on Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The Taliban deny the allegation, saying tackling militancy is \u2060Pakistan’s internal problem.<\/p>\n
The conflict had ebbed amid attempts by friendly countries, including China, to mediate and end the fighting before flaring up again.<\/p>\n
Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, said he was “dismayed” by fresh reports of Pakistani air strikes and resulting civilian deaths.<\/p>\n
“My condolences. I urge parties to de-escalate, exercise maximum restraint and respect international law, including the protection of civilians and civilian objects such as hospitals,” he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan \u2060on a rehabilitation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-350679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}