TIMELINE: Pakistan in an open war with Afghanistan, Pakistan defence minister says

Record ID: 2365899

  • Title: TIMELINE: Pakistan in an open war with Afghanistan, Pakistan defence minister says
  • Date: 16th October 2025
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Pashto) HEAD OF SPIN BOLDAK HOSPITAL, ABDULLAH JAN, SAYING: “It was around 4 a.m. when the fighting began. Most of the wounded are children, and 90 percent of the casualties are civilians, including women and children. We have, thank God, prepared the ambulances, and all the injured, whether women or children, are treated here first and then transferred to Kan
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  • Keywords: Afghanistan Islamabad Kabul Kandahar Pakistan Taliban border conflict ceasefire explosions militants truce
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  • Country: Various
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA007408516102025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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    At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday (March 17), a sharp escalation in the conflict between the neighbors.
        Pakistan rejected the claim as false and misleading and said it "precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure" on Monday night.
        The air strike came hours after China said it remained ready to continue efforts to ease tensions between the South Asian Islamic nations and urged both to avoid expanding the war and return to the negotiating table. 
        The conflict that began last month is the worst ever between the neighbors who share a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) border. It had ebbed amid attempts by friendly countries, including China, to mediate and end the fighting before flaring up again.
    (Production: Ariel Wee, Salah Uddin, Yawar Afzal Malik, Jeremy Frost, Ahmad Masih, Timothy Sim, Lion Schellerer, Yogendran Sandiran, Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, Salah Uddin, Yawar Afzal Malik,  Arooba Charakla, Fayaz Aziz, Waseem Fattani, Shung Sin Tan, Keval Singh, Daniel Lim, Mark Ho)
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