Now, more than a year after the Pahalgam attack and India’s strong retaliation, Pakistan has made a bizarre claim of engaging and striking two air bases in India that do not even exist, after being badly hit last year during counter-terrorism operations under Operation Sindoor.The strong military action under Operation Sindoor was met with a Pakistani response, with Islamabad launching a barrage of missiles and swarms of drones towards India. However, the Indian air defense intercepted and destroyed every threat in the air, avoiding any loss of life or property on Indian territory.Read also| Operation Sindoor: The 88-hour operation that defined the ‘new normal’ in India’s counter-terrorism strategyPakistan called its counter-action “Operation Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos”, and now a strange claim has emerged from a Pakistani army official on social media. He said that as part of Operation Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos, Pakistan targeted and clashed with two air bases, Rajouri and Mamoon, both located in the border sectors along the Indo-Pakistani border.
However, what makes it strange is that there are no such air bases.In a clip circulated on social media, a Pakistani army official was heard saying that “two targets have been identified, Rajouri Air Base and Mamoon Air Base,” during an interview with a Pakistani channel.
Read also: “Why in English?” Pakistan’s strange reaction to India’s pressure program on Op Sindoor is going viralThe town of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir lies along the Line of Control, a heavily militarized zone where tensions remain high with Pakistan. Likewise, Mamoon is located in Punjab’s Pathankot district, another area close to the border, but neither location has an air base.Also last year, Colonel Sofia Qureshi, during official briefings, confirmed that Pakistan had used long-range weapons and loitering munitions, all of which were intercepted and destroyed by India’s highly coordinated, multi-layered air defense response.
