Afghanistan cricketers have shared condolences and slammed Pakistan after 400 were killed and over 250 were injured as a hospital treating drug addicts in the Afghan capital, Kabul, was hit by PAF airstrikes on March 17, 2026, as claimed by the Taliban government.
Afghanistan's deputy government spokesperson, Hamdullah Fitrat, said the attack targeted the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul around 9 p.m. local time, demolishing substantial areas of the 2,000-bed facility.
Rescue personnel are still searching for survivors among the rubble. The event has worsened Pakistan's already difficult relations with the Taliban regime, with both sides swapping accusations over security concerns.
Pakistan refuted the Afghan government's charges, calling them "baseless," and claimed that no hospital in Kabul was targeted.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Afghan government spokesperson, criticized the strike, accusing Pakistan of "targeting hospitals and civilian sites to perpetrate horrors."
A wave of anger and grief has swept through Afghanistan’s cricket fraternity after a devastating airstrike that has claimed 400 lives, making it one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s recent history.
Afghanistan cricketers and the Afghanistan Cricket Board have shared their condolences on social media while slamming Pakistan for doing so.
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