The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday rejected what it said were “baseless, misleading, and unwarranted” remarks by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Pakistan’s ongoing action against terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has been conducting air strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan as part of the now temporarily paused On Tuesday, the Taliban regime’s deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat claimed in a post on X that an airstrike had hit the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital, killing up to 400 people in the Afghan capital overnight.
However, Pakistan forcefully rejected the Afghan Taliban claims, terming the allegations “entirely baseless” and part of a wider pattern of misinformation aimed at distorting facts. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had said the strikes carried out on the night of March 16 were “precise, deliberate, and professional”, targeting only military and terrorist infrastructure linked to attacks inside Pakistan.
India’s MEA had condemned the incident in a statement issued a day ago.
