Rashid Khan urges UN investigation into alleged Pakistan strike on Kabul hospital that leaves 400 dead

Rashid Khan was among many Afghanistan cricket stars who condemned the strike in Kabul.

Star spinner Rashid Khan and numerous other Afghanistan cricket stars have condemned a strike on a hospital in the country’s capital Kabul that has left a reported 400 people dead.

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of the carrying out the attack.

Rashid, who was captain of the Afghanistan T20I team until the end of their campaign in the recently concluded 2026 T20 World Cup, called upon the United Nations and other human rights agencies to “thoroughly investigate this latest atrocity and hold the perpetrators to account”.

Rashid’s teammates also voiced their thoughts on X.

Veteran all-rounder Mohammad Nabi said that “hope was extinguished” at the hospital.

The facility that had been struck was an 2,000-bed rehabilitation centre for drug addiction.

Other Afghanistan players to react included spinner Noor Ahmad, pacer Naveen-ul-Haq and batsman Ibrahim Zadran, who recently replaced Rashid as Afghanistan’s T20I captain.

Tonight in Kabul, hope was extinguished at a hospital.

Young men seeking treatment were murdered in a bombing by the Pakistani military regime.

Mothers waited at the gates, calling their sons’ names.

On the 28th night of Ramadan, their lives were cut short.

pic.twitter.com/p12617D4de — Mohammad Nabi (@MohammadNabi007) March 16, 2026
Tonight in Kabul, hope was extinguished at a hospital.

Young men seeking treatment were murdered in a bombing by the Pakistani military regime.

Mothers waited at the gates, calling their sons’ names.

On the 28th night of Ramadan, their lives were cut short.

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— Mohammad Nabi (@MohammadNabi007) March 16, 2026
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— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) March 16, 2026
Tonight I heard a massive explosion here in Kabul.

Moments later we saw flames rising into the sky from a hospital.

Our brothers who intended to fast tomorrow are now gone, or wounded.

My thoughts are with every family grieving tonight.

Kabul is in pain.

We pray for justice.

— Ibrahim Zadran (@IZadran18) March 16, 2026
Tonight I heard a massive explosion here in Kabul.

Moments later we saw flames rising into the sky from a hospital.

Our brothers who intended to fast tomorrow are now gone, or wounded.

My thoughts are with every family grieving tonight.

Kabul is in pain.

We pray for justice.

— Ibrahim Zadran (@IZadran18) March 16, 2026
Heartbreaking ??

https://t.co/ME3zFuWXBn — Noor Ahmad Lakanwal (@noor_ahmad_15) March 17, 2026
Heartbreaking ??

https://t.co/ME3zFuWXBn
— Noor Ahmad Lakanwal (@noor_ahmad_15) March 17, 2026
Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat stated on X that the strike hit the Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital around 9 PM local time.

The alleged Pakistani attack destroyed large sections of the 2,000-bed facility, with the death toll reaching 400 and roughly 250 others injured.

Sharing a picture of a charred hand, presumably from the attack, Fitrat said on X: “The hospital of hope that turned into a slaughterhouse of dreams.”
Pakistan, however, flatly denied the allegation.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ’s spokesman Mosharraf Zaidi dismissed the allegations as baseless, insisting no hospital was targeted in Kabul.

Pakistan’s Ministry of Information said the strikes “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure”.

The fighting erupted between the two nations late February after Afghanistan launched cross-border attacks in response to Pakistani airstrikes inside that Kabul said killed civilians.

Those clashes also disrupted a Qatar-brokered ceasefire from October, one that had halted earlier fighting that killed dozens of soldiers, civilians, and suspected militants.

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