I saw it all with my own eyes: shattered skulls, severed limbs, bodies on the ground... The Pakistani bombing of a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul on the night of March 16 was devastating. I am a journalist and I know my job is to go to places, see, and report. But, in this case, what I saw has deeply disturbed me. I am 25 years old. I wonder how many young people my age in other countries have seen what I have seen.

Pakistani airstrikes killed hundreds of patients after striking a major drug rehabilitation center in Kabul late on March 16, 2026, according to Taliban authorities, in one of the deadliest reported attacks in recent months. The strikes targeted multiple locations across Afghanistan, including sites in Kabul, Paktia, and Paktika provinces, amid escalating tensions between the Taliban and Pakistan.

Six days after the resumption of fighting, the "Open war" declared by Pakistan in Afghanistan Last week's conflict resulted in hundreds of victims and thousands of displaced people, although the exact number of casualties and refugees remains unknown. While the Pakistani government claimed on Wednesday to have killed 481 Taliban fighters and wounded 696 others in Operation Ghazab-lil-Haq, authorities in Kabul put the death toll of their soldiers at 28. According to the same source, 150 soldiers have died on both sides of the border, known as the Duran Line, which stretches for 2,600 kilometers. The United Nations, for its part, has confirmed the displacement of 8,000 people and the deaths of 42 civilians, including women and children, from artillery fire and airstrikes. One missile attack from Pakistan, for example, landed near a camp housing displaced people. due to the 2025 Kunar earthquakeThe result of this incident, according to data from the Norwegian Refugee Council, has been three deaths and seven injuries. Some 650 families have been forced to flee again. The conflict has already devolved into a war of attrition against fortified positions. The Pakistani Ministry of Information, under the leadership of Attaullah Tarar, claims to have disrupted the Taliban's logistical capabilities by destroying 226 border checkpoints and capturing another 35. According to official reports of the operation, the Pakistani army has eliminated 198 pieces of heavy machinery, including tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces, through airstrikes targeting 56 strategic locations in the provinces of Kunar, Paktika, and Khost. The forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan maintain a contrasting version of the situation on the front lines. According to their statements, their troops captured 10 Pakistani checkpoints and destroyed a tank, in addition to shooting down five surveillance and attack drones. The disparity in damage reports underscores the difficulty of verifying the true extent of the conflict and destruction in border areas that have remained closed to the independent press since October 12.

Pakistan has declared "open war" in Afghanistan. It is the latest escalation of a conflict that has its roots in territorial divisions imposed during the colonial era and has become increasingly complex and multifaceted over the years. We spoke with Gabriel Reyes, a research associate at CIDOB who has extensively studied the tensions between the two countries. Reyes points out that "nothing is new."

The Pakistani army bombed targets in Kabul, Paktia, and Kandahar, Afghanistan, early Friday morning, effectively declaring open war in the neighboring country, with which it shares a 2,600-kilometer border. This wave of bombings marks the most significant escalation to date in the simmering conflict between the two countries, which began last October when Kabul and Islamabad agreed to a ceasefire after a week of hostilities. The current standoff is the most serious since the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. According to the Pakistani prime minister's spokesperson, speaking to the international press, the attacks targeted Afghan military objectives.

A new escalation of violence in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province has left some 200 dead this weekend. The Pakistani army is attempting to regain control after a series of coordinated bomb and gun attacks in several towns and cities across the region. The attacks have killed 31 civilians and 17 members of the security forces, according to Balochistan's Chief Minister, Sarfraz Bugti. The army has responded with further violence, killing at least 145 militants. "Security forces have killed 145 militants over the course of more than 40 hours following the coordinated attacks in Balochistan," Bugti told a press conference Sunday in Quetta, the provincial capital. He specified that the death toll includes militants killed in raids on Friday and Saturday, as well as other fighters killed during the ongoing "clearance operations."

Indian police are investigating a car explosion this Monday in New Delhi as a possible suicide attack. This is how the local news agency ANI reported, citing government sources, after authorities activated an "anti-terrorism" law on Tuesday.

It was almost ten o’clock at night, when two explosions tore through the silence of Kabul. The sound was so fierce that I froze heart pounding, breath caught in my chest. For a moment, I thought the war had found its way back. I ran through the house calling my family’s names. When I saw them safe, I felt my knees weaken with relief. Outside, the city was still too quiet, as if Kabul itself was holding its breath.

Pakistan and Afghanistan entered a new spiral of violence on their border this weekend, with dozens of deaths and a diplomatic escalation that threatens to exacerbate regional instability. According to Pakistani military sources, 23 Pakistani soldiers and more than 200 Afghan Taliban fighters have died in the clashes, while Kabul lowers its own death toll to 9 and claims the Pakistani dead at 58. Islamabad blames Afghan forces, while the Taliban maintains that it acted in "retaliation" for the bombings that, it claims, Pakistan carried out on Afghan territory on Friday. In response to the escalation, the Pakistani government has closed all border crossings with Afghanistan, including the main ones at Torkham and Chaman, along the historic Durand Line.

After weeks of rising tensions in Kashmir, President Donald Trump surprised everyone this Saturday with the announcement that India and Pakistan have agreed to a complete and immediate ceasefire. The gesture offers a respite from a long-running conflict, marked by multiple armed clashes and a death toll numbering in the thousands over the decades. The announcement also reveals a deeper shift, as the role of the great powers has changed and, with it, the logic of regional containment.

The ceasefire between India and Pakistan appears to remain in effect this Sunday, despite the confusion caused by cross-accusations of attacks just hours after the agreement was announced on Saturday. According to local media, calm returned to border towns in Kashmir this Sunday morning, and civilians who had been displaced are preparing to return home. However, there are still doubts about whether the agreement will be effective. will it mean long-term peace or if it is still too fragile.

From The attack launched by New Delhi's air force against Pakistan on Wednesday In retaliation for the terrorist attack against 26 Indian tourists a week earlier, the clashes between India and Pakistan continue unabated, and neither do the threats. Both armies have reported bombings and crossfire in recent days in areas beyond the disputed territory of Kashmir, but the latest phase of this escalation is being led by drones.

The world is watching Pakistan. After theIndia launched a missile attack on at least nine locations in Pakistan and Kashmir early Wednesday morning.Islamabad has vowed retaliation for what it called an "act of war." "India will have to pay the price for the blatant mistake it made last night. Perhaps they thought we would withdraw, but they forgot that, by the grace of Allah, this is a nation of brave people with a steely resolve," proclaimed Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The response, officials say, will come "at the right time, place, and manner" to "avenge the loss of innocent lives."

A new episode of violence in the disputed region of Kashmir has once again set off alarm bells in South Asia.. The attack on a group of Hindu pilgrims, which left 26 dead, has further intensified the already tense relationship between India and Pakistan, two neighbors who share a history, borders, and nuclear arsenals ready to be activated. The concern extends beyond the region.

India's attack on Pakistan and Kashmir this morning The Pakistani-administered region, which both countries dispute, is the worst confrontation between the two nuclear powers in two decades. While New Delhi justifies the attack by claiming it only hit "terrorist" targets, Islamabad denounces it as an "act of war" and promises retaliation. What has caused the conflict to flare up now? Should we expect the start of a new war? We spoke with Irene Martínez, a professor at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan.

After weeks of skirmishes, India launched a missile attack on Tuesday night against at least nine locations in Pakistan and Kashmir, the Pakistani-administered region that the two nuclear powers are disputing. It was acting against "terrorist infrastructure." Pakistan has called it an "act of war" and claims it has shot down five Indian warplanes. -BK_SLT_LNA~ defense." In a statement, it called on the international community to recognize "the gravity of India's unprovoked illegal actions and hold it accountable for its flagrant violations of international norms and laws."

The United Nations on Friday issued an urgent call for "restraint" in India and Pakistan, after the armies of both countries were involved hours earlier in an exchange of fire early this morning on the Kashmir border, along the Line of Control. The incident, confirmed by both sides, caused no injuries, but represents a further sign of the escalating tension shaking the region since the murder of 25 Indian tourists and a Nepalese man last Tuesday in an attack at the tourist hill station of Pahalgam, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Pakistani army freed nearly 350 people from a passenger train on Wednesday. kidnapped on Tuesday by pro-independence militants from the southwestern province of Balochistan, according to a spokesman for the armed forces. During the assault, 33 rebels of the so-called Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) were killed, although some sources, such as CNN, claim the number was 35, while the Associated Press reports that the number was 50. The Jaffer Express rescue operation.

The murder of sisters Arooj and Anisa Abbas – aged just 24 and 21 – in Pakistan has brought to the centre of Catalan public debate a reality that, here, often goes unnoticed: forced marriages and so-called honour crimes against women who dare to rebel. All this gender violence of the worst kind is too often hidden behind communication barriers and ignorance of the reality of migration. In the last thirteen years the Mossos d'Esquadra have detected 198 victims of forced marriages in Catalonia, most of whom were only between 13 and 23. Eighty-one percent of cases reached the police before the marriage went ahead, so they were able to act to prevent the wedding. But it is possible that this is just the tip of the iceberg of a problem that we have ignored for too long, since most of the victims are girls who were born in Catalonia or who have been schooled here and have lived here for a long time.

Shaheen Azra has returned to Catalonia. She is Arooj and Anisa Abbas's mother, the 24- and 21-year-old sisters from Terrassa killed in Pakistan for wanting to divorce their cousins, who they had been forced to marry a year ago. On her arrival, she interrupted the Pakistani consul to speak to the media: "I want to thank you. Thank you for letting me return and thanks to the Pakistani police, to the authorities here and especially to the Pakistani consulate in Barcelona for helping me". Thus, between sadness and gratitude, the woman and her youngest son, aged 13, landed early Sunday morning at El Prat airport, after an almost 24-hour flight.