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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable missile

Islamabad: Pakistan Wednesday successfully test-fired an intermediate range nuclear-capable missile, less than a week after India tested a 5,000-km range missile that can reach deep inside China.
          

"Pakistan today successfully conducted the launch of intermediate range ballistic missile Hatf-4 Shaheen-1A weapons system," an army statement said Wednesday.

"The missile is an improved version of Shaheen-1 with improvements in range and technical parameters," the statement said.

The missile is capable of "carrying nuclear and conventional warheads", said the statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

Pakistan carried out the test after India April 19 test-fired its long-range nuclear-capable Agni-V missile. With its launch from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast Thursday, India emerged as a major missile powerhouse of the world, having developed Agni-V almost entirely indigenously over the last four years.

Only the US, Russia, China, France and Britain have missiles in their arsenal that can hit targets 5,000 km and beyond.

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