KABUL, March 18, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani indicated on Wednesday that Afghanistan preferred diplomacy to resolve a conflict with neighbouring Pakistan that saw hundreds killed in a strike on Kabul this week.

"We do not want war," he told mourners at a mass burial of some of the victims of Monday night's strike on a drug rehabilitation centre.

"But the situation has come to this, so we are trying to solve the problems through diplomacy."