{"id":29066,"date":"2026-03-17T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=29066"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:11:11","slug":"400-martyred-in-pakistan-airstrike-bennett-urges-de-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/03\/400-martyred-in-pakistan-airstrike-bennett-urges-de-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"400 martyred in Pakistan airstrike; Bennett urges de-escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called on Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate to de-escalate tensions and exercise maximum restraint.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bennett wrote today (Tuesday, March 17) on his X account that he is dismayed by Pakistan\u2019s airstrikes in Afghanistan and the resulting civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Human Rights Council rapporteur urged Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate to respect international law, including the protection of civilians and civilian facilities such as hospitals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pt-12 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"user\" data-message-id=\"b3758806-28e0-4a55-916b-b5cb4a0c28fe\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden items-end rtl:items-start\">\n<div class=\"user-message-bubble-color corner-superellipse\/0.98 relative rounded-[22px] px-4 py-2.5 leading-6 max-w-(--user-chat-width,70%)\">\n<div class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap\">Last night, the Pakistani military targeted the 2,000-bed hospital for drug rehabilitation in Kabul, resulting in 400 people being martyred and 250 injured.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, has called on Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate to de-escalate tensions and exercise maximum restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,17,6,178],"tags":[177,683,1662,1663],"class_list":["post-29066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security_","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan","tag-islamic-emirate","tag-pakistan-airstrike","tag-richard-bennett"],"views":24,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29072,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29066\/revisions\/29072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}