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Story summary
- A Pakistani airstrike hit the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital in Kabul on 16 March 2026, killing 269 people.
- Families say the hospital was a civilian drug-rehabilitation centre, not a militant camp, and describe a mass grave.
- UN and Human Rights Watch reject Pakistan’s claim the site was a terrorist-training facility and call the strike unlawful and a war crime.
- Taliban deputy Hamdullah Fitrat demanded an international investigation and denied Afghan territory hosts armed groups.
