India criticised Pakistan at the UN Security Council's May 20 debate on protecting civilians, citing UN findings on cross-border violence in Afghanistan. India's representative, Harish Parvathaneni, accused Pakistan of attacking civilians while invoking international law in its own diplomatic arguments. His intervention linked the bilateral dispute to the wider debate over protection of hospitals and other civilian facilities.
The meeting record shows that he referred to 750 civilian deaths and injuries during the first three months of 2026, not 750 people killed. He cited UNAMA's attribution of 94 of 95 casualty incidents to Pakistani security forces and singled out the March 16 strike affecting Kabul's Omid drug-treatment hospital.
UNAMA's underlying January-March report gives a more precise overall breakdown: 372 civilians killed and 397 injured, a combined total of 769. It says most casualties occurred after Pakistan announced Operation Ghazab lil-Haq on February 26. Those figures concern cross-border violence during the reporting period and should not be relabelled as a fatality count.
For the Omid hospital, UNAMA reported at least 269 civilians killed and 122 injured, mostly patients. Its investigation included a site visit and interviews with survivors, relatives, healthcare workers and morgue staff. It described three impacts affecting sleeping and prayer areas, food storage and vocational-training buildings, with shrapnel injuries and burns among the principal causes of harm.
A subsequent UN report published in June recorded Pakistan's embassy telling UNAMA that its March 16 action was directed solely at terrorist and military infrastructure. That later-recorded response contests the characterisation of the targets; it does not erase the civilian casualties documented by the UN mission.
Beyond Afghanistan, India's May 20 statement called for humanitarian access and protection of medical and relief personnel. It also warned about explosive weapons in populated areas and said drones, artificial intelligence and autonomous systems must comply with international law. The speech combined those general protection demands with specific criticism of Pakistan's conduct.
