India, March 17 -- India on Tuesday strongly condemned Pakistan's alleged airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul, describing the attack as "barbaric."

In an official statement, the Indian government said: "India unequivocally condemns Pakistan's barbaric airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul on the night of March 16."

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called the strike a "cowardly and unconscionable act of violence" that claimed the lives of a large number of civilians. "This facility can by no means be justified as a military target.

Pakistan is now trying to dress up a massacre as a military operation," the statement added.

MEA further condemned the attack as a "heinous act of aggressi...