ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Pakistan’s security sources said that there was no drug rehabilitation centre at the site in Kabul as claimed by the Afghan Taliban regime.
Latest ground intelligence from Kabul alleged that this place was earlier temporarily used to round up drug addicts of Kabul by the Taliban once they took over.
These addicts, over a period of time, were sold off to different warlords and terrorist organisations, primarily to be used as suicide bombers, the sources said.
The security sources further claimed that presently, the containerized structure being shown by the Taliban was housing Taliban regime troops and members of affiliated terrorist outfits.
“However, a large number of them being drug addicts cannot be ruled out since two things which are quite common amongst the Taliban are addiction and homosexuality,” sources said.
Afghan Taliban claims debunked
Pakistan’s Ministry of Information on Tuesday debunked another systematic propaganda campaign by the Afghan Taliban that its armed forces allegedly struck a hospital in Kabul.
The ministry said that the hospital that was claimed to have been targeted is located several kilometers away from the actual site of the attack, i.e., “Camp Phoenix”.
The real target of the Pakistan Army was a military location where a large cache of weapons and ammunition of the terrorists was located, which was targeted with utmost precision last night.
The images received clearly show that Omid Hospital is a multi-storey building, while the targeted area was the infrastructure of the terrorists, consisting of containers.
A fact check said that “Omid Hospital, which the Afghan Taliban claimed had been hit, was actually multiple kilometres away from Camp Phoenix, the military terrorist ammunition and equipment storage site precisely targeted last night.”
Sharing satellite imagery, the ministry said that the “actual hospital is a multi-storied structure as compared to the military/terrorist infrastructure actually targeted, whose image is also attached; the difference and lie is clear to see”.
Dismissing the claims, it also questioned why an alleged drug rehabilitation facility would be “co-located with [a] lethal ammunition storage site in a military camp”.
