Pakistani air strike on the Omid drug Rehabilitation center in Kabul

Pakistani air strike on the Omid drug Rehabilitation center in Kabul

1: The Pakistan strike on Kabul on March 16 resulted in a significant number of deaths and injuries to civilians, at least in the hundreds. The total death toll has yet to be independently assessed.

It is well-documented that a large part of Camp Phoenix, a former NATO camp, had been operating as a drug rehabilitation facility since 2016. Pakistan’s military should have known this and therefore taken all feasible precautions to spare civilians and civilian objects before launching this strike. Any reasonable assessment and information gathering would have concluded that the camp had a high civilian presence.

Even if an ammunition depot was present inside the wider camp, the decision to attack should have been weighed against any excessive harm that it was likely to cause to civilians. The scale of death and destruction raises serious concerns about whether the Pakistani military conducted an adequate proportionality assessment and took all necessary steps to gather information about the intended target and minimize civilian harm.

The Pakistani authorities must now explain what information they acted upon, and steps taken for verification. They must also carry out an independent, impartial and timely investigation into the circumstances of this strike and the resulting civilian casualties, with the results made public with a view to ensuring accountability.

Amnesty International calls on all parties to the conflict to strictly adhere to international humanitarian law and to take urgent measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

2: At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in the Afghanistan capital Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said

3: A Pakistani airstrike on a rehabilitation center in Kabul killed over 400 people, Afghanistan’s health ministry said.

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4: UNAMA statement on an airstrike on a medical facility in Kabul.

On 16 March at around 9pm in Kabul, an airstrike carried out by Pakistan military forces impacted the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital, a healthcare facility for treatment of drug-addicted.

5: Officer-in-Charge of UNAMA, Georgette Gagnon, visited the Emergency Hospital in Kabul today to meet with people injured in the 16 March airstrike.

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