{"id":1881,"date":"2026-03-17T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:11:19","slug":"afghanistan-say-pakistan-hit-a-drug-rehab-centre-killing-400-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/afghanistan-say-pakistan-hit-a-drug-rehab-centre-killing-400-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan say Pakistan hit a drug rehab centre, killing 400 people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan said Tuesday that it carried out precision airstrikes overnight targeting Afghan military installations in the capital Kabul and eastern Nangarhar province. Afghanistan, however, says a drug rehabilitation facility was hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Pakistan\u2019s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar claims the strikes destroyed technical support infrastructure and ammunition storage facilities at two locations in Kabul.<br>\u201cThe visible secondary detonations after the strikes clearly indicate the presence of large ammunition depots,\u201d Tarar wrote on the US social media company X\u2019s platform, sharing a video clip along with his post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260317-40847431-40847417-AT_LEAST_400_KILLED_IN_PAKISTANI_AIRSTRIKE_ON_KABUL_DRUG_REHABILITATION_FACILITY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a0A view of destruction following reported Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 17, 2026. -AA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u201cIn Nangarhar, Pakistan\u2019s armed forces also struck four Afghan Taliban military sites, destroying associated logistics, ammunition, and technical infrastructure,\u201d he added.<br>Tarar said all targets were selected with precision and limited to infrastructure allegedly used by Afghan authorities to support militants operating against Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Earlier, Afghan Deputy Spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said at least 400 people were killed, and around 250 were injured in what he described as a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul on Monday. He said large sections of the facility were destroyed and warned of a potentially higher death toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp escalation in the conflict between the neighbours. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m7U54J6SnB\">pic.twitter.com\/m7U54J6SnB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/2033783651733852280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have worsened after border tensions escalated last month, causing casualties and property damage.<br>Since late February, cross-border clashes have killed 107 people on the two sides, including 13 soldiers and five civilians in Pakistan, with one soldier still missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to Kabul, 13 soldiers and 76 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan. The figure does not include fresh casualties claimed by Afghan authorities on Monday.<br>According to UN data, 185 civilian casualties, including 56 deaths from indirect fire and aerial attacks, were reported in Afghanistan between Feb. 26 and March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan said Tuesday that it carried out precision airstrikes overnight targeting Afghan military installations in the capital Kabul and eastern Nangarhar province. Afghanistan, however, says a drug rehabilitation facility was hit. Pakistan\u2019s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar claims the strikes destroyed technical support infrastructure and ammunition storage facilities at two locations in Kabul.\u201cThe visible secondary detonations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,205,168],"tags":[191,34,262,117,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-1881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conflict-zones","8":"category-secondary-story","9":"category-world","10":"tag-afghanistan","11":"tag-drugs","12":"tag-olivenewsnetwork","13":"tag-pakistan","14":"tag-war-crimes"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivenewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}