Claim: Footage of a Pakistani attack on Spin Boldak, Afghanistan is from 23 September 2026.
Fact: The footage does show Pakistan attacking Spin Boldak, but is dated 12 October 2025.
On 24 September 2026, the Facebook page ‘Eagle Eye Pakistan’ shared a grainy 29-second video which seems to be taken by thermal aerial camera. The clip shows a group of three long, low buildings being bombed from different angles. The top left corner of the video carries the label “Karar Camp, Spin Boldak.”
The same video was shared across two posts, one with an Urdu-language caption which stated:
[Translation: “Spin Boldak: Precision Strike has been carried out in the area of Spin Boldak, precisely targeting the terrorists in the camp.”]
The page then reshared the video with the English-language caption “Pakistani Precision Strike Targets Militant Camp in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan.”
Spin Boldak and the Pak-Afghan Conflict
Spin Boldak is a district in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, next to the Chaman district of Balochistan. There is also a border town of the same name within the district, where a key crossing is situated.
A satellite image of the Spin Boldak crossing.
On 24 September, Pakistan conducted airstrikes in 10 locations in Afghanistan, in response to alleged drone strikes from the other side of the border on 23 September. Earlier, on 21 September, Pakistan bombed multiple sites in eastern Afghanistan, allegedly killing 28 militants.
This last wave of airstrikes was spurred by an 18 September suicide bombing at a police compound in Kohat by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a terrorist group Pakistan has long accused the Afghan Taliban government of harboring.
However, there have been intermittent clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan since last year. Ongoing tensions peaked when Pakistan struck militant bases in the eastern Nangarhar and southeastern Paktika provinces of Afghanistan on 21 February 2026. On 26 February, the Taliban launched what they termed a “large-scale offensive operation” against Pakistani military border posts. In response, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared a state of “open war” on 27 February and initiated “Operation Ghazab lil-Haq” (Righteous Fury) with attacks on Kabul, Kandahar, and Paktia.
Earlier, in December 2025, there was an exchange of heavy fire along the Spin Boldak – Chaman border, with both sides accusing the other of initiating the exchange. The Afghan government reported five casualties in Spin Boldak.
In October 2025, there was a week of deadly clashes along the same border, killing and injuring dozens in Spin Boldak.
Fact or Fiction?
A Google reverse image search of keyframes from the video revealed multiple posts on social media sharing the same footage on 12 October 2025.
A search using the terms “Pakistan” and “Spin Boldak” – excluding results prior to September 2026 – also yielded multiple news reports from the same date. These videos contain the same footage, confirming that the bombing of the Esmatullah Karar (alternatively spelled Asmatullah Karar) camp in Spin Boldak took place almost a year ago.
The news of the bombing and the video both appear to originate with state broadcaster Radio Pakistan, which posted the clip on 12 October 2025. The article on the outlet’s website states: “According to security sources, Asmat Ullah Karar Camp was one of the biggest camps of the Afghan Taliban from where terrorist activities against Pakistan were launched.”
Soch Fact Check was not able to find any record of a camp or militant by this name on the internet prior to this report.
According to OSINT media outlet Faytuks Network, the location shown in this video is at 30.984853°N 66.347906°E, approximately 12 miles from the border crossing. Key features of the area, such as the layout of the three buildings, appear to be the same as in the video.
The probable location of the October 2025 bombing on Google Earth (snapshot dated August 2025).
Aside from the matter of the footage, it is as yet unknown whether Spin Boldak has recently been subject to bombing by Pakistan at all.
According to both a statement by Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid and a video shared on X by Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarrar [see 0:35 onwards], the province of Kandahar was one of the locations struck on 24 September. However, neither side has referred to the border district specifically in their statements.
The video posted by Tarrar contains a zoomed-in clip of a site in Kandahar being bombed, but it is not immediately clear whether this may be in Spin Boldak or not.
The video posted by Tarrar contains a zoomed-in clip of a site in Kandahar being bombed, but it is not immediately clear whether this may be in Spin Boldak or not.
However, it is clear that the viral video was taken in October 2025, not September of this year.
Virality
The initial post was shared by a pro-military account with 261000 Facebook followers, which is known for spreading disinformation by misrepresenting combat footage. It was then reshared by other pages, including two pages centered on news from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with approximately 7900 and 4900 followers respectively.
Soch Fact Check has previously debunked other claims centered on conflict specifically in Spin Boldak.
There is also an overarching trend of false or misleading claims surrounding the ongoing Pak-Afghan war. Read our most recent fact checks on the subject here and here.
Conclusion: The footage in question shows the bombing of a site in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan — termed the “Esmatullah Karar Camp” by Pakistani military sources — on 12 October 2025, not in September 2026.
Background image in cover photo: Qudratullah Razwan/EPA.
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