Afghanistan accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital late Monday, saying the airstrike had killed at least 400 people. It marked a dramatic escalation of a conflict that began late last month and has seen repeated cross-border clashes as well as airstrikes inside Afghanistan.

Afghanistan said over 400 civilians were killed in an alleged Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul on Monday. In a post on X, Afghan deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat announced the attack and death toll after social media footage showed the smoldering ruin of the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital.

Crowds gathered on Tuesday outside a drug treatment centre in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in a bid for news of their loved ones after it was hit in a Pakistani air strike.AFP reporters counted at

Pakistan’s strikes in Afghanistan, including the Kabul hospital attack, appear less about security and more about deflecting pressure from the Iran war. Caught between Iran, Saudi Arabia and Trump, Asim Munir’s Pakistan is opening a new front to avoid choosing sides.

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. Now, there's an "open war" between the two. The two countries, now at loggerheads, are India's western neighbours.