Pak-Afghanistan 'war' highlights: EU urges Pak, Afghanistan to 'exercise restraint' after clinic strike

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Security sources told Pakistan's Geo News that Pakistan's army targeted an Afghan Taliban post in the Torkham sector and destroyed it in a precision strike.

The sources also added that such operations against Afghanistan would continue.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: The EU on Tuesday called for "maximum restraint" from both Afghanistan and Pakistan after a strike on a Kabul drug rehabilitation centre that Afghan authorities said left hundreds dead.

"The attack on a medical facility in Kabul constitutes a new and deadly escalation in a conflict that must end as soon as possible," European Commission spokesman Anouar El Anouni told a media conference in Brussels.

"We call on both parties to exercise maximum restraint and to take all possible measures to minimise the risk of harm to civilians," he added. (AFP)

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: The European Union urged 'restraint' from Afghanistan and Pakistan after strike on clinic in Kabul.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan is expected to intensify its military operation against Afghanistan, Reuters reported, citing analysts. They added that Kabul could retaliate in the form of raids on border posts and more cross-border 'guerrilla attacks' to target security forces.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: On March 12, Chinese mediation efforts, including a message from President Xi Jinping, helped ease tensions between the two nations, Reuters reported. A meeting between the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan, Jiang Zaidong, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif late in February included a message from Chinese premier Xi Jinping to cease hostilities. (Reuters)

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: The first reported incident of the current tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan came on February 27 this year when Pakistan's air strikes hit 22 Afghan military targets, according to Pakistan's military spokesperson. He also said that at least 12 Pakistan soldiers were also killed during the attacks and 274 Taliban officials and fighters were killed over 24 hours.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan is continuing effective and targeted operations against Fitna al-Khawarij and Afghanistan's Taliban regime under Operation Ghazab lil-Haq by targeting posts in the Khyber sector, Pak's Geo TV reported citing security sources.

In the operation, Pakistan's armed forces used anti-tank guided missiles and destroyed the identified positions, the security sources said.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: The conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan dates back to the British Raj in India, even before the creation of Pakistan. The main focal point of their tiff is the Durand Line, the international border between the two nations.

The Durand Line was established in 1893 to define the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British India Empire. This border arrangement was later inherited by Pakistan in 1947, following its partition with India.

The Durand Line is considered one of the most dangerous borders in the world, demarcating Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan, over which Afghanistan claims territorial sovereignty. The line also demarcates the disputed region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which is claimed by Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

Tensions between the two neighbouring countries also increased after Afghanistan became the only nation to vote against Pakistan's admission to the United Nations.

Pakistani and Afghan forces have clashed across the border for decades, with tensions taking their deadliest form ever since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in 2021. Read more.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Picture obtained from a handout video by Reuters shows smoke rising following an air strike by Pakistan in location given as Nangarhar, Afghanistan on March 16, 2026, in this still image obtained from a handout video. Date of the footage could not be verified but no older version of the video was found posted online before March 17.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan's federal minister for information and broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said that 684 combatants of Afghanistan's Taliban and Fitna Al Khawarij were killed during Pakistan's Operation Ghazab lil-Haq. He added that around 252 posts of Talibal and Fitna Al Khawarij were destroyed and 44 others were captured as part of the operation.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: India on Tuesday called out Pakistan after strikes on a hospital in Afghanistan's Kabul left at least 400 people dead and over 250 injured.

"This is a cowardly and unconscionable act of violence that has claimed the lives of a large number of civilians in a facility which can by no means be justified as a military target. Pakistan is now trying to dress up a massacre as a military operation", the statement said.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan strike on Kabul hospital kills 408, injures 265, according to Taliban interior ministry, Reuters reported.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday reacted to Pakistan’s strikes in Afghanistan, saying it hopes all sides will remain calm and exercise restraint amid rising tensions, according to a Reuters report.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: India on Tuesday called out Pakistan after strikes on a hospital in Afghanistan's Kabul left at least 400 people dead and over 250 injured.

"This is a cowardly and unconscionable act of violence that has claimed the lives of a large number of civilians in a facility which can by no means be justified as a military target. Pakistan is now trying to dress up a massacre as a military operation", the statement said.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: the Afghan Cricket Board on Tuesday condemned the deadly Pakistan airstrike on Kabul hospital and called it an ‘act of violence against innocent people.’
“We stand in solidarity with the affected families and our people during this difficult time,” the board said in a statement on X.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Visuals have emerged of the Pakistani airstrike at a hospital for drug users in Kabul, that left at least 400 dead and 350 injured in the Afghan capital late on Monday.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan has labelled the airstrike on Kabul as Operation Ghazab Lil Haq. While the Taliban government said that 400 people had been killed in Pakistan's attack on a hospital in Kabul, Islamabad denied hitting any civillian targets and said that it had hit ‘terrorism-supporting military installations of the Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul and Nangarhar’ Pakistan's Express Tribune said, quoting information minister Attaullah Tarar.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Witnesses said they heard three bombs exploding just as people in the hospital were completing evening prayers, with two of the blasts hitting rooms and patient areas, Reuters reported.

"The whole place caught fire. It was like doomsday," said Ahmad, 50, who said he was under treatment at the facility and gave only his first name. "My friends were burning in the fire, and we could not save them all."

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Pakistan carried out overnight airstrikes targeting Afghan Taliban positions in Kabul and Nangarhar, hitting what it described as military installations and terrorist infrastructure, officials said on Tuesday.

The strikes were part of Operation Ghazab lil Haq, launched on February 26, according to Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

The ministry said that on the night of March 16, Pakistani forces conducted precise strikes on military sites and support infrastructure, including technical equipment and ammunition storage facilities linked to the Afghan Taliban and Fitna al-Khawarij. It claimed these sites were being used to carry out attacks against Pakistani civilians.

Officials added that secondary explosions from ammunition storage at the targeted locations contradict Taliban claims that civilians were hit.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: The UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett wrote on X, “Dismayed by fresh reports of #Pakistan airstrikes in Afghanistan and resulting civilian casualties. My condolences. I urge parties to de-escalate, exercise maximum restraint & respect international law, including the protection of civilians and civilian objects such as hospitals”.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Afghanistan's Deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat took to X and shared, “The hospital of hope that turned into a slaughterhouse of dreams”.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat shared on X, "#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".

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Tuesday that at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, marking a sharp escalation in tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Pakistan rejected the claim as “false and misleading”, saying its military had “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure” during strikes carried out on Monday night.

The airstrike came hours after China said it remained ready to help ease tensions between the two South Asian Islamic nations and urged both sides to avoid further escalation and return to negotiations.

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'war' live updates: Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, said he was “dismayed” by fresh reports of Pakistani airstrikes and the resulting civilian deaths.

“My condolences. I urge parties to de-escalate, exercise maximum restraint and respect international law, including the protection of civilians and civilian objects such as hospitals,” he said in a post on X.