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Pakistan test fires third missile
Pakistan on Tuesday test fired a third ballistic Abdali missile, a military spokesman said. It is a short-range Abdali missile, he said. India unimpressed
Pakistan on Tuesday test fired a third ballistic Abdali missile, a military spokesman said. It is a short-range Abdali missile, he said.The missile is capable of carrying warheads accurately up to a range of 180 km.
On Saturday, Pakistan test-fired a nuclear-capable medium-range Hatf-V (Ghauri), in the face of loud international calls for restraint.
The weapon fired on Sunday was a newly-developed short-range Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) capable of carrying warheads up to 290 kilometres with great accuracy, an official statement said. After the two successful firings, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Aziz Ahmed Khan said that Pakistan`s defences were impregnable.
The concentration of troops on borders and coercive attitude of any power could not frighten the valiant armed forces of Pakistan, whose soldiers were more keen to embrace martyrdom than saving their lives, he said.
In an address to the nation on Monday, Musharraf vowed that Pakistan would not allow terrorism to be launched from its soil, and said that no infiltration was taking place into Kashmir.
But he said that tension was at its height and the danger of war was not yet over.
Bureau Report
On Saturday, Pakistan test-fired a nuclear-capable medium-range Hatf-V (Ghauri), in the face of loud international calls for restraint.
The weapon fired on Sunday was a newly-developed short-range Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) capable of carrying warheads up to 290 kilometres with great accuracy, an official statement said. After the two successful firings, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Aziz Ahmed Khan said that Pakistan`s defences were impregnable.
The concentration of troops on borders and coercive attitude of any power could not frighten the valiant armed forces of Pakistan, whose soldiers were more keen to embrace martyrdom than saving their lives, he said.
In an address to the nation on Monday, Musharraf vowed that Pakistan would not allow terrorism to be launched from its soil, and said that no infiltration was taking place into Kashmir.
But he said that tension was at its height and the danger of war was not yet over.
Bureau Report