Pakistan has rejected Amnesty International’s latest report on the killing of civilians during the airstrike on Omid Rehab Centre in Kabul on March 16, 2026. Pakistan maintained that the airstrike targeted the weapon storage and military drone workshop on strong intelligence.
In the report issued by Amnesty International, the organisation claimed that 269 civilians were killed in the airstrike on a 2000-bed medical facility in Kabul.
Amnesty International wrote in its report that, “The organisation found no evidence to support the Pakistan military’s claims that Omid Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre was being used to store weapons and ammunition or for other military purposes at the time of the attack.”
On the other hand, Pakistan’s security establishment rejected the report by Amnesty International, claiming that the organisation issued the report on the evidence submitted by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Pakistan’s security establishment also maintained that the organisation dedicated to defending and promoting human rights worldwide overlooked Pakistan’s mission-critical intelligence that justified the strikes.
Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said in a report, “The attack on the Omid Centre constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law – possibly amounting to a war crime. Given the widely available information that the site had been used as a medical facility for more than a decade, this reflects a major failure in military planning by Pakistan that led to a significant loss of civilian life.”
Pakistan’s security analysts, however, declared Amnesty’s report as a document based on weak evidence.
One Pakistani security analyst stated, “The claim that Pakistan deliberately targeted a 2,000-bed hospital is both implausible and absurd.”
“The absence of such evidence significantly weakens Amnesty’s narrative,” the expert said.
