A Pakistani airstrike on the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital in Kabul killed at least 269 people on 16 March, making it one of the deadliest single attacks in Afghanistan's recent history. The UN and BBC reporting confirm the strike hit civilian patients undergoing addiction treatment at the facility, which had been operating for a decade and was well-known to international agencies — yet Pakistan insists it targeted "military and terrorist infrastructure" and has claimed, without evidence accepted by victims' families, that the centre was used to train suicide bombers. Human Rights Watch has described the attack as "an unlawful attack and a possible war crime," and families of the victims — many of whom were recovering addicts left unidentifiable due to burns and dismemberment — are calling for an independent international investigation.