At least 200 dead and 400 wounded in a Pakistani attack on Kabul

BarcelonaA Pakistani airstrike on the Afghan capital, Kabul, has left at least 200 dead and more than 400 wounded, according to Taliban government sources cited by the EFE news agency. Afghanistan claims the bombing hit a drug rehabilitation center with a capacity for 1,000 patients, while Pakistan says the target was "military installations" and "terrorist support infrastructure" in Kabul and Nangarhar. "There were very loud and continuous explosions, and we also heard the sound of fighter jets. When we looked, we saw flames. When we went outside, the Omid Treatment Center had been bombed," a witness who lives near the medical center told EFE. The Afghan government says the medical facilities are "completely destroyed" and warns that the death toll could rise because "many patients are still buried under the rubble." This is one of the largest rehabilitation clinics in Afghanistan, dedicated to treating drug addicts from all over the country.

The Pakistani government denied this, asserting that the operations were "highly precise and targeted" against warehouses belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) insurgent group. It argued that the secondary and continuous detonations recorded after the bombing confirmed that the building housed weapons and explosives, not patients.

On February 27th, the Pakistan declared "open war" in Afghanistan And since then, the exchange of attacks between the two countries has not stopped. Islamabad justifies the bombings as necessary to fight Taliban militants, who often attack Pakistani security forces, while accusing the Taliban government of providing them refuge, while Kabul denies the accusation and calls the attacks a violation of its sovereignty.