At least 250 people may have been killed and more than400 wounded when a Pakistani airstrike struck a rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Afghan health officials said on Monday.
Another Taliban government official put the death toll as high as400.
The 2,000-bed facility was treating drug addicts from across the country and eyewitnesses reported that hundreds of patients were inside at the time.
Residents described unprecedented airstrikes over Kabul late on Monday, just hours after Beijing announced it was mediating talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"The Pakistani military regime has once again violated Afghanistan's airspace and targeted a drug rehabilitation hospital, resulting in deaths and injuries among addicts undergoing treatment," Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.
The Pakistani Ministry of Information rejected the claims. The ministry wrote on X that its strikes targeted "military installations and terrorist support infrastructure," including technical equipment and ammunition storage facilities in Kabul and Nangarhar.
Footage released by Afghan media showed that the strike triggered a massive fire at the facility.
Two days earlier, Kabul accused Islamabad of carrying out an airstrike on a drug treatment facility in southern Kandahar Province and targeting a fuel depot belonging to a private airline.
Since October 2025, Afghanistan and Pakistan have engaged in intermittent clashes, with tensions escalating after Pakistani airstrikes on February 22 reportedly killed at least a dozen civilians, triggering further fighting.
The United Nations says civilians have borne the brunt of the cross-border violence. Since February 26, at least 75 Afghan civilians have been killed, 193 injured, and thousands displaced,worsening the country's humanitarian crisis.
Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban authorities of backing Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group responsible for decades of attacks in Pakistan. Kabul denies the allegation.
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