A Pakistani military officer faced severe criticism and online mockery after he claimed that Pakistan had successfully targeted two Indian airbases which, according to official records, do not actually exist.
The controversy started when a video clip of Pakistani Army officer Captain Muneeb Jamal went viral on social media. In this interview, the officer claimed that Pakistan’s ‘Fatah-1’ missile system had successfully attacked “Rajouri Airbase” and “Mamun Airbase” during military operations against India.
“We were given two targets – Rajouri airbase and Mamun airbase – and we successfully attacked them,” the officer said in the now-viral clip.
There is no operational airbase of the Indian Air Force there.
Fact-checkers and defense experts quickly pointed out major inaccuracies in the claim. Rajouri is a district located in Jammu and Kashmir, but there is no operational airbase of the Indian Air Force present there. At the same time, Mamun is a military cantonment area near Pathankot in Punjab and there is no similar airbase there.
This statement immediately sparked mockery online; Users posted maps, defense lists and memes, questioning how the missiles could attack targets that don’t actually exist.
What did social media users say?
One user sarcastically wrote that “archaeologists, cartographers, Google Maps and the Indian Air Force” should launch a joint operation to locate those mysterious airbases. Another user joked that the missiles hit the targets “with so much force that they were wiped out of existence”. These comments come in the backdrop of heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack and the subsequent befitting response by India on terrorist targets across the border under ‘Operation Sindoor’.
what the FAC?
In retaliation, Pakistan reportedly carried out drone and missile strikes under ‘Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos’, targeting areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat. During this tension, Indian air defense systems intercepted many incoming threats. On May 10, 2025, Pakistan launched ‘Fatah-1’ guided artillery rocket system; According to Indian defense sources, it was intercepted mid-air over Sirsa in Haryana before it could cause any damage.
After this, there were reports of recovery of missile debris from many places including Sirsa in Haryana, Barmer in Rajasthan and Jalandhar in Punjab. Earlier, suspected fragments of ‘Fatah-1’ missile were also recovered from Dal Lake in Srinagar. Captain Jamal also claimed in the interview that the civilians present near the launch site boosted the morale of the Pakistani Army during the operation. But his words were overshadowed by the controversy related to the alleged “airbase strike”.
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