March 17 - More than 400 people were killed and 265 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a charge Islamabad denied and said it had targeted a military camp and "terrorist infrastructure".

Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman said early Tuesday the death toll from an airstrike by Pakistan that hit a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital Kabul has increased to 400. Residents and volunteers inspect the site of a late-Monday airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul,

With airstrikes on Afghan territory, including the strategically important Bagram Airfield, Pakistan has declared open war on the Taliban. This escalation coincides with the war in Iran.

Both sides have claimed to inflict heavy losses in what has become their deadliest fighting in years, a confrontation Pakistan has described as an “open war” with Afghanistan.

Tensions in South Asia have intensified after Pakistan conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan, prompting a strong reaction from India. Calling the strikes an “act of aggression,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stressed the need to respect Afghan sovereignty.

Pakistan says it struck militant hideouts in Afghanistan as cross-border fighting intensified and both sides traded blame.

The Afghanistan stars condemned the attack on a rehabilitation hospital during Ramzan, which reportedly killed 400, calling it 'sheer disregard for human lives'

Live updates on the Afghanistan-Pakistan war today. Death toll in Kabul hospital strike rises to 400. Pakistan denies hitting civilian sites as ‘Open War’ intensifies.