KABUL, March 17 (Reuters) - At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the deputy spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday.

At the Emergency Hospital, dozens crowded around a thick book to check the names of the victims killed in an airstrike on a rehabilitation center. The U.N. says over a hundred people were killed.

Over 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a hospital in Kabul, a Taliban spokesman said. Pakistan rejected the claim as false.

A key outlawed Pakistani militant group behind numerous gun and bomb attacks announced a three-day ceasefire early Thursday ahead of a key Muslim holiday, hours after Pakistan and Afghanistan also declared a temporary pause to escalating fighting.

Information ministry’s 'fact check' statement said no violations of temporary pause had occurred along western border

Pakistan's information ministry and military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Pakistani airstrike hit a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing or wounding an

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has refuted the claim of Taliban regime's so called Ministry of Defence spokesperson that Pakistan has violated the temporary pause as frivolous.

Afghanistan says Pakistan is to blame for a strike on a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul that killed at least 400 people, the deadliest attack since fighting began weeks ago.

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India.

International and Afghan media have debunked false claims by the Afghan Taliban, regarding the killing of 400 people in an alleged hospital attack in Kabul. This has exposed the misleading and fabricated propaganda by the Afghan Taliban regime against Pakistan.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed a five-day ceasefire for Eid al-Fitr as Kabul held a mass funeral for people killed in an alleged Pakistani airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital. The truce for the Muslim festival of Eid,