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Afghanistan: Families search for loved ones on Eid after Pakistan's deadly airstrike on Kabul hospital

Families in Kabul spent Eid searching for missing loved ones after a reported Pakistani airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation centre, killing over 400 people. The incident has intensified tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with authorities warning of retaliation

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In a poignant sight, several Afghan families searched for their loved ones on Eid in Afghanistan after Pakistan's airstrike on a drug rehab centre in Kabul claimed lives of over 400 people on March 16, a report has detailed. The Pakistani attack against what it termed as "military and terrorist infrastructure" in Afghanistan seemed to have gone wrong catastrophically as a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts was targetted which resulted in a massive tragedy. 

On Eid, Sohrab Faqiri was looking for the grave of his brother killed in a Pakistani airstrike on Kabul. Faqiri’s brother, Qais, a tailor and father of a 10-year-old boy, was receiving treatment at the facility for the past three months, UK's leading daily The Guardian reported.

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