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As Pakistan and Afghanistan declare truce, civilians in Kabul count the cost of war

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As Pakistan and Afghanistan declare truce, civilians in Kabul count the cost of war KABUL, Afghanistan — On Monday night, residents living near the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in the Afghan capital heard a sharp sound tearing through the sky, followed by an explosion. Two days later, Abdul Basir Watan joined dozens of inmates' families crowding outside the hospital in central Kabul. They lis...
The article presents a deeply unsettling snapshot of a conflict saturated with misdirection and obscured truths, revealing a pattern of strategic obfuscation designed to justify escalating aggression. The “facts” presented by Pakistan—that the Omid Hospital was a “military and terrorist infrastructure”—are immediately undermined by the UN’s observation of “widespread destruction, including complete destruction of one block that housed adolescents receiving drug treatment.” This immediately signa...