New Delhi: First, it was the seaport in Patna and now Pakistan has claimed to have struck two airbases about whose existence even the Indian Air Force (IAF) is not aware.
Struggling to come to terms with the fact that the hundreds of drones and missiles it launched against civilian and military targets in India were intercepted, Pakistan is again thinking up imaginary targets.
India launched Operation Sindoor days after the Pahalgam terror attack – which claimed 26 innocent lives – striking nine terror camps operating in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK).
What followed was an intense 88-hour conflict between the two nations, which came to an end on May 10, 2025, after India all but pulverised a large number of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) based through precision missile strikes. Pakistan was soon on its knees, pleading for a ceasefire that India agreed to.
Now, a PAF officer, Air Commodore Aurangzeb Ahmed has said: “We were assigned two targets, Rajouri Airbase and Mamun Airbase, and we successfully engaged them”, as reported by News18.
Rajouri is a district in Jammu and Kashmir and it has no airbase. Mamun, on the other hand, is a military cantonment in Punjab’s Pathankot, but it has no airbase.
The Pakistani officer claims to have used Fatah-1 guided artillery rockets to strike these airbases. While Pakistan did fire these tickets against India, they were successfully intercepted and destroyed by India’s air defence network.
The clip went viral in no time and the internet, and the Pakistani official came under intense scrutiny over his hollow remarks, with netizens questioning him when the airbases he mentioned were actually built.
“Archaeologists, cartographers, Google maps, and the Indian air force have launched a joint mission to locate legendary “Rajouri airbase and Mamun airbase”, one user wrote.
“Fateh-1 hits Rajouri and Mamun airbases so hard that they cease to even exist! Next Target: Atlantis”? another user wrote.
“Guess what, I live in Jammu and there is no such base in Rajouri. I never heard of it. Yes, there’s an advance air base but nope, it’s not useful”, wrote a third user.
Over the last year, Pakistan has been making several wild claims about successes during the conflict, without being able to come up with any visuals.
India, on the other hand, has shared high-resolution satellite images of the serious damage caused to the terror facilities and air bases.
