‘War crime’: Rashid Khan and other Afghanistan cricketers slam Pakistan after airstrikes kill 400 in Kabul

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New Delhi: Afghanistan cricketers Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai and Naveen Ul Haq, among others, slammed the Pakistani government after airstrikes by the Pakistani military killed at least 400 people in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Monday night. The Taliban government in Afghanistan claimed a hospital in Kabul was targeted by Pakistan, leading to hundreds of civilian casualties.

As per the Afghan government, the Pakistani airstrikes hit the Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul late on Monday night. The officials claimed that the death toll has reached 400, while more than 250 people have been injured in the missile strikes, which have been deemed ‘war crime’ by prominent Afghanistan cricketers.

Calling out Pakistani aggression on social media, Rashid, who is one of Afghanistan’s most popular cricketers, said attacks on civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances. Rashid said Pakistan’s ‘sheer disregard’ for human lives was sickening as he called upon the UN and other human rights agencies to investigate and take action against the country.

“I am deeply saddened by the latest reports of civilian casualties as a result of Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul. Targeting civilian homes, educational facilities or medical infrastructure, either intentional or by mistake, is a war crime. The sheer disregard for human lives, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, is sickening and deeply concerning,” Rashid wrote in a tweet on X.

“I call upon the UN and other human rights agencies to thoroughly investigate this latest atrocity and hold the perpetrators to account. I stand with my Afghan people in this difficult time. We shall heal, and we will rise as a nation. We always do. Inshallah,” he added.

Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi also took to X to condemn the Pakistani strikes on Kabul, which claimed the lives of innocent people. Nabi accused the Pakistani military regime of murdering young men who were undergoing treatment at the facility.

“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,” the senior Afghanistan cricketer wrote in a tweet.