{"id":76721,"date":"2026-03-17T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-kabul-hospital-strike-killed"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:22:22","slug":"dozens-killed-in-kabul-hospital-by-strikes-afghan-government-blames-on-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76721","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of deadly strike on Kabul hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s deputy government spokesman says death toll has reached 400 people \u2018so far\u2019 as Islamabad denies targeting facility for drug addicts<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds were feared dead after a strike on a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital of Kabul, which officials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> blamed on the Pakistani military.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said the death toll had \u201cso far\u201d reached 400 people, while about 250 people had been reported injured. He said most of those killed and wounded were patients undergoing treatment at the facility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-kabul-hospital-strike-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s deputy government spokesman says death toll has reached 400 people \u2018so far\u2019 as Islamabad denies targeting facility for drug addictsHundreds were feared dead after a strike on a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital of Kabul, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76736,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76721\/revisions\/76736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}