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Omid opened a decade ago, back in 2016, at an abandoned NATO base, well before the Taliban seized power in this country.
We've driven up one of the hills surrounding the city of Kabul to a graveyard where we're going to meet the family of another victim of the airstrike at the rehabilitation center.
Masooda's younger brother, Mir Weiss, who was 21 years old, was killed in that airstrike.
And just behind us, actually, I can just see rows and rows of graves.
This is the mass grave in which we're told about 80 to 90 of the victims who were killed in that airstrike, they were buried here.
The Pakistani government says that the people in that hospital were not civilians, that they were terrorists, that they were being trained to be suicide bombers.
What would you like to say to that?
We spoke to the families of more than 30 victims who also rejected Pakistan's claims.
In response to the BBC, Pakistan denied it had hit a hospital, drug centre or civilian facility.
The Taliban government's deputy spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat.
International organisations should investigate the incident and prosecute those responsible accordingly.
This is a huge attack right in the heart of Kabul.
One of the big claims of your government since you seized power has been that you brought safety and security to the people of Afghanistan.
Is Kabul safe now?
Despite the Taliban's assurances of safety, for a people who are recovering from decades of war, this new conflict with a former ally, Pakistan, has renewed fears of a return to violence and bloodshed.
Yogit Lemoye with that report.
To the Philippines now, where a senator has taken refuge inside the country's parliament in an effort to avoid arrest over his alleged role in former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
Ronald de la Rosa fled into the Senate building on Monday as police sought to detain him after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.
There are allegations that the former police chief oversaw the deadly war on drugs causing the deaths of thousands of people.
Mr De La Rosa has been in hiding since his former boss, Mr Duterte, was arrested and taken to The Hague last year on charges of crimes against humanity.