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Ahmad Mukhtar is a producer for CBS News based in Toronto, Canada. He covers politics, conflict and terrorism, with a focus on news from Canada and his home nation of Afghanistan, which he left following the Taliban's return to power in 2021.

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Updated on: March 17, 2026 / 7:55 AM EDT / CBS News

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The Taliban in Afghanistan claim that a Pakistani military airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul has killed over 400 people and injured 250 others.

The attack occurred around 9 p.m. on Monday at a facility located in Kabul's Police District 9, according to Taliban officials.

"The Pakistani military regime bombed a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital called 'Omid.' Large parts of the hospital have been destroyed," said Hamdullah Firtat, a Taliban spokesman, on X.

"Unfortunately, the number of martyrs (dead) has so far reached 400 people, and up to 250 others have been injured."

Sharafat Zaman, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Public Health, told…