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Afghanistan: The Kabul rehab centre hit by deadly Pakistani strike

BBC News · · 110 words
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3 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“On 16 March 2026, at least 269 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.”
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The claim is directly confirmed by a Wikipedia entry stating that on 16 March 2026, the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul was destroyed by Pakistani Air Force airstrikes. Multiple web search results further corroborate the date and location of the attack.
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web search NEUTRAL — The attack on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital is the deadliest attack in Afghanistan, possibly ever, but certainly in recent history, including 20 years of war between the Taliban, and Nato and …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202xrd9gn7o
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web search NEUTRAL — A Pakistani airstrike on a drug treatment center in Afghanistan on March 16, 2026, was an unlawful attack and a possible war crime.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/27/pakistan-airstrike-on-af…
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web search NEUTRAL — On 16 March 2026, Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital, a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghanistan, was destroyed amid airstrikes carried out by the Pakistan Air Force during the 2026 Afghanistan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Kabul_hospital_airstrike
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“Pakistan said in a statement to the BBC that it had targeted "military and terrorist infrastructure".”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of general information about Pakistan's geography and status as a nuclear state. There is no evidence in the provided text regarding a statement made by Pakistan to the BBC about targeting 'military and terrorist infrastructure'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pakistan is considered a middle power and is a declared nuclear-weapon state, with the world's seventh-largest standing armed forces.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
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web search NEUTRAL — Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān), is a country in South Asia. It shares its border with other countries India, Iran, Afghanistan and China (disp…
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Pakistan, populous multiethnic country of South Asia. Having a predominately Indo-Iranian speaking population, Pakistan has historically and culturally been associated with its neighbors I…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Pakistan
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“The UN, which was given access to the site, as well as the BBC's Afghan service teams who were on the ground in the immediate aftermath, also confirm the strike hit civilians undergoing treatment.”
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The claim is corroborated by a BBC News cross-reference and multiple web search results (including The New York Times) confirming that the strike hit a drug rehabilitation facility and civilians undergoing treatment.
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web search NEUTRAL — The attack hit a drug rehabilitation facility, and Afghanistan vowed to retaliate, risking an escalation of the conflict between the two countries. The airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation center in Ka…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/asia/afghanistan-pa…
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web search NEUTRAL — The attack on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital is the deadliest attack in Afghanistan, possibly ever, but certainly in recent history, including 20 years of war between the Taliban, and Nato and …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c202xrd9gn7o
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web search NEUTRAL — The attack on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital is the deadliest attack in Afghanistan, possibly ever, but certainly in recent history, including 20 years of war between the Taliban, and Nato and …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c202xrd9gn7o
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