Over a year after the Pahalgam attack and India’s strong retaliatory action, Pakistan has made a bizarre claim of engaging and hitting two airbases in India that do not even exist. This comes after India’s counterterror operations under Operation Sindoor, which hit Pakistan hard.
Operation Sindoor and Pakistan’s Response
The strong military action under Operation Sindoor was met with a Pakistani counter, as Islamabad launched a barrage of missiles and drone swarms towards India. However, India’s air defence intercepted and destroyed every single incoming threat in the air, avoiding any loss of life or property on Indian soil.
Pakistan’s Bizarre Claim
Pakistan named its counter-action “Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos,” and now a bizarre claim by a Pakistani army official has surfaced on social media. He said that under Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos, Pakistan targeted and engaged two airbases, Rajouri and Mamun, both located in bordering sectors along the India-Pakistan border. However, what makes it bizarre is that no such airbases exist.
In a clip being shared on social media, a Pakistani army official is heard saying that “they were assigned two targets, Rajouri airbase and Mamun airbase,” during an interview with a Pakistani channel. Rajouri, a town in Jammu and Kashmir, lies along the line of control and is a heavily militarised zone where tensions with Pakistan remain high. Similarly, Mamun falls in Punjab’s Pathankot district, another area close to the border, but neither location has an airbase.
Previous Pakistani Claims
Last year as well, during official briefings, Colonel Sofiya Qureshi confirmed that Pakistan used long-range weapons and loitering munitions, which were all intercepted and destroyed by India’s highly coordinated multi-layered air defence response.
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