Overview
- Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi on March 18 rejected the Indian Ministry of External Affairs' remarks as baseless, misleading and unwarranted.
- India had condemned what it described as a Pakistani airstrike on a Kabul drug treatment centre as barbaric and a blatant assault on Afghanistan's sovereignty.
- Pakistan urged New Delhi to end alleged support and sponsorship of groups operating from Afghan territory, including entities on the UN Security Council sanctions list.
- Islamabad cast India's stance as duplicity, citing claims of instrumentalising Islamophobia, backing an occupying power in Palestine and violating UN resolutions in Kashmir.
- Pakistan said its actions target terrorist infrastructure to protect national security and regional stability, with no sign of follow‑up diplomatic engagement reported in these accounts.