Eyewitnesses' accounts shred Pak lies after strike on Kabul hospital kills 400
THE accounts of several eyewitnesses in Afghanistan’s Kabul exposed the lies of Pakistani authorities that they hit a military infrastructure and not a hospital.
On Monday, Pakistan launched military operations in Kabul and Nangarhar, which, according to a statement from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, hit the Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, killing 400 people.
Pakistan strongly denied the claims of hitting any medical facilities. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s spokesperson for foreign media, Mosharraf Zaidi, said no hospital in Kabul was targeted in the Pakistani operation.
Further, the Defence Ministry said that the strikes, which were precise in hitting enemy targets, hit the Afghan military installations and infrastructures in Kabul and Nangarhar that had close ties with the Afghan terrorist groups. The ministry further added that these infrastructures were used to launch terrorist activities targeting the common people in Pakistan.
EYEWITNESSES' ACCOUNTS EXPOSE PAK LIES
The lies by the Pakistani authorities were exposed soon as several eyewitnesses expressed their experiences of the strike. Talking to news agency Reuters, several eyewitnesses said that they heard sounds of three explosions when the people in the hospital were completing evening prayers. Two of the explosions struck rooms and patient areas.
“The whole place caught fire. It was like doomsday," an under-treatment patient named Ahmad told Reuters. “My friends were burning in the fire, and we could not save them all,” he further added.
The strikes damaged multiple facilities of the hospital. Haji Fahim, working as an ambulance driver in the hospital, told Reuters that he saw everything was burning when he arrived at his workplace.
"When I arrived (last night), I saw that everything was burning, people were burning. Early in the morning, they called me again and told me to come back because there are still bodies under the rubble,” he mentioned.
Following the attacks, several buildings were severely damaged. As Reuters reported, buildings were reduced to heaps of wood and metal, with only a few bunk beds still intact in some, while blankets, personal belongings and bedding were strewn about.
PAK ATTACK SIMILAR TO ISRAEL, SAYS AFGHAN GOVERNMENT
The Afghan government said the Pakistani airstrikes were similar to Israel’s action in Gaza. Sharing the photos and the videos of the survivors, Fitrat wrote, “#Martyrs of the Night of Power. The crimes of Pakistan's oppressive military regime, which made people forget the crimes of the Zionist regime. The martyrs of Shab-e-Qadr, the peak of oppression.”
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The incident also drew sharp criticism from several Afghan cricketers. Condemning the attack, cricketer Navin-Ul-Haq, who is set to play for Kolkata Knight Riders in this year’s IPL, wrote on Facebook, “Hard to find any difference between Israel and the Pakistani regime. Period.”
The likes of Rashid Khan and Mohammad Nabi also condemned the incident. "Tonight in Kabul, hope was extinguished at a hospital. Young men seeking treatment were murdered in a bombing by the Pakistani military regime. Mothers waited at the gates, calling their sons’ names. On the 28th night of Ramadan, their lives were cut short," Nabi wrote, sharing a video on X.
