The Hatf II (Abdali) has a range of 180 kilometres and carries nuclear as well as conventional warheads with ‘high accuracy’, according to a military statement. “It provides an operational level capability to Pakistan’s strategic forces, additional to the strategic and tactical level capability which Pakistan already possesses,” the statement added.
Pakistan’s arsenal includes short, medium and long-range missiles named after Muslim conquerors. India and Pakistan have routinely carried out missile tests since both demonstrated nuclear weapons capability in 1998.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 6th, 2012.
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in kargil a hand full of men took whole india on for over month and they came back on are callback. lets see you do something like that
Looks like all this arms have greater likelihood of being used against Baluchistan just as they were used against people of East Pakistan. I say that because likelihood of using violence against people who cannot counter attack and defend is much more than attacking a powerful enemy.
@Akbar Daud: and why is that Mr. Einstein....
@Ahsan: Excellent.... this is just too funny.... they will now blame Pakistan for this:)
@Malatesh: Only you know... lol... dont make generic statements.....
i can also say... everyone know India supports terrorism in Baluchistan..
@John B:
The answer to yourlong (irrelevant) comment is "India"
@Anwar: Kolaveri means murderous rage. It is a Tamil word. "Kolai" means murder and "veri" means rage. Should have actually been kolaiveri. But languages have changed a lot in their usage in India, like Mumbai Hindi, Chennai Tamil, etc. "Di" is a way a girl is in singular terms called like "Thum" or more appropriately "Thu". The song is about a boy complaining about a girl.
@unbeliever: WELL SAID REPLY
@BruteFart: Why this "Kolaveri" ?
All Indian Friends
I hope Indian missiles doesnt have the same problem that Indian man are facing these days as mention in the below link.Please read it and try to solve this problem first then talk about missiles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm
Funny that ppl still lay their pride in Pakistan. This illiterate nation doesnt know that these missiles are something not to be proud of.
I do not care even if they tested an intern-continental ballistic missile. I want to know Will they be used against the drones?
If not, they are as good as firecrackers.
@Minet:
I agree with you. Cross breeding is how we came about. The point being we are not the natives of the land. We have mixed blood and that is extremely normal. Many nations across the globe are mixed blood. The best thing about us the Muslims is that Islam holds us together and will continue to hold us as one :-)
@Rajendra Rana: Current Indian Air Force planes fall out of the sky due to bad maintenance. These high tech planes will be even more difficult to maintain. Therefore, we are not losing any sleep over these.
But is it a wise investment. Indian politicians are making good commission out of this multi billion dollar sale. Overall money would be better spent on Indian farmers committing suicide as they cannot afford to repay their loans.
shoot down a drone then I will believe, other than that its always a drama.
Any nuclear warhead hitting India within a 180 km of Pakistan would destroy Pakistan as well in terms of fallout, to say nothing of seond strike retaliation from India. How stupid is that. Is there no more productive use of our resources?
@Shariq Najeeb:
A lesson I believe............don't start wars you do not intend to win........Think PAK will ever get that point?
@Scientist: There was never any civilian migration into the Indian subcontinent by Arabs or Mongols or Persians or Tartars. The Arabs and Persians who conquered what is now Pakistan were only soldiers. Likewise only Turkic soldiers ever occupied India under Mughals and they were a few thousands compared to the population of hundreds of millions. After cross breeding of these few soldiers over many generations there is no alien strain left.
All Pakistanis are Punjabis, Sindhis, Mohajirs or Pashtuns who are natives of the subcontinent. There are no Arabs or Mongols or Turks in Pakistan. If you get you DNA tested, you will wake up from your delusions!!!!
I am waiting to listen the news that Pakistan has design any weapon that can deter the attack of drone, we need this, even civilians knows what Pakistan badly needs.
@Scientist: really great thoughts, never thought like that.
@Scientist: I agree with you.
@Soldat Amir:
Well who are our heroes anyway? We are the invaders of this land remember? The ancient civilizations across the river indus were destroyed by our ancestors such as Aryans, Persians, Afghans, Tatars, Mangols, Arabs...
Believe it or not, Abdali, Ghaznavi, Babar, Ghauri etc are from our ancestors :P.....
Just as US names its missiles in "English" not in Native (Indian) American language... Why? Because their ancestors came from "England".
@Muqarrib: We Muslims are an ideological group, one ummah united under the flag of Islam, our nationality is not based on national, regional, linguistic, and racial feelings. Yeah? Tell that to Saudis and other rich Islamic nations where Pakistanis are treated as second class people. How does the saying go - It's Economy, stupid!!
Let's mend our houses... feed our children... educate our masses instead of being proud of the weapons that bring nothing but death and destruction.
@Talha: Idiots from both sides bragging over missiles and fighter planes when their fellow countrymen starve for food. I just regret being part of this subcontinent for so many reasons! Very aptly put, sir! We are so far behind from the rest of the developed world that it is depressing. Yet, here we are, whistling and clapping at the ugly display of weapons! We have our priorities, straight, don't we :(
@Another ProudPakistani: India can’t match the quality of our arms as well as the courage & bravery of our fighters So, it's settled then. You guys have nothing to fear from us then. That should stop Pakistanis from living under "India is the existential threat to us" lie.
What had India got to do with our missile test, why bring India into it.ET is better then that.As for all the wars fought why keep bringing it up, do you guys ,Pakistan started all wars and lost all of them, why shame yourself repeatedly.Anyways Congrats on the successful Missile test , one more brick in the wall.
India can't match the quality of our arms as well as the courage & bravery of our fighters...it's only the quantity where they have the edge but it hardly matters... Pakistan Zindabad..!!
@unbeliever: Unfortunately you are right. Also, with the bunch of liers around who knows these misiles are really worth or just emitting gas!!! It could be just a psycological game of firing something like misile once India does so; you just to impress the Pakistani folks the way they have been doing in the past!!!
@zaid hamid: why do you need names. it is important to have technology which Afghan does have. By the way i am also Afghan and proud for any Muslim country to develop against any Muslim enemy. no wonder Afghanistan is in such a mess as they still depends on there old heroes. develop few new and then say what you are saying ....
Newspaper reporting at it again. The ppicture shows a Babur cruise missile lifting off and the news is about a ballistic missile.
@Pak007: How much budget is going to defence? it's just 12% of GDP. Do you know how much is going to debt servicing? and this 12% is only this time because we are fighting a great war against the world united and wild forces. By bringing good economic policies we can improve our military as will as social and economic sector.The existing policies are never satisfactory.With these policies you will need to strengthen you military as much as you can because we are not only facing external threat but internal also.
I wonder how many weeks or months of fuel could have been purchased for the price of that missile test? You can rationalize your high tech toys anyway you want but your broke and the vast majority of people would prefer you spend your money on things that benefit them rather than the Generals.
@ AN, Mach 3 is good enough to hit Boeing at least or an antique Scud, Abdali speed reaches Mach 7, but don’t worry your MDS will for sure sniff the smoke of Abdali
Americans name their military hardware on red Indiana names, no one is USA ever questioned trivial matters like this, there is a lot more in this world than argue over names and where we came from. Noone Pakistanis as a nation are lacking behind.... Check America planes like chinook and apache... Shame on the writers who are arguing over missile names
Idiots from both sides bragging over missiles and fighter planes when their fellow countrymen starve for food. I just regret being part of this subcontinent for so many reasons!
@Naveed Alam Khattak, please correct your history Mahmood Ghaznavi and Shahāb-ud-Din Muhammad Ghori were turkish etnic and Mughals belong to turkish & mongols back ground.
why i'm not surprised to see all the top comments are of insecure indians
@indians see this and enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXbtHq19NY
we are a nation that has been trying to impose an alien identity upon ourselves on the pretext of Islam. We forget that islam allows and celebrates different cultures. Our insecurities about who we are as a nation has engulfed us and the results of which are now apparent.
@Pakistani Agnostic:
Even North Korea has achieved better feats in developing War Machines. But, its still considered a failed state, just like Pakistan.
Lets assume Pakistan has indeed developed them.Its like a poor man buying an expensive car. He cant afford to maintain it and becomes his white elephant.
Big toys belong to big boys.
@Muqarrib: Can you please tell when was that one ummah formed?
@Raheel: are u proud of dr abdus salaam?
@zaid hamid: How about Ali Zafar?
Pakistan has enough surface to surface missile capability to target anything close to 2500 km. We better make our cruise missile technology more sophisticated and deadly. Babor cruise missile is sub sonic so we better work on making it super sonic and also develop capability to make it fire from Naval frigates. It will benefit our average Navy a great deal.
@Sajjad Said: Yes you are right. This is due to the miss-management that a large portion of our budget goes to defense rather then being allocated to education and health. We have the biggest example of USSR in-front of us. Despite having the largest no of nuclear weapons it disintegrated, the primary reason being poor economic conditions. We have created a hype about some countries that they are constantly conspiring against us as if they have nothing else to do. Our competitors are in a better economic position then us. First we need to stabilize our economic conditions. You can't win the race if you can't stand on your feet.
@yeashh: Indian ballistic shield will prove nothing more than a torn apart canvas while Babar Cruise Missile will start raining down inside Indian borders ... Bring some real thing before commenting
FEED and EDUCATE THE MASSES STOP WASTING MONEY ON WEAPONS
@Ghaznavi:
Stop fooling yourself. Pakistan doesn't have the technology nor Technology to manufacture a decent car, yet it can develop Missiles? Rubbish..
Even if we suppose it mustered enough resources to develop the War Machines, clearly it was way above Pakistan's capacity, similar to that of North Korea.
Its like a poor guy buying an expensive car. He cannot maintain it and it becomes the white elephant in his life. No wonder Pakistan is considered one of the most failed states on Earth.
Big toys, belong to big boys.
@Soldat Amir: cmmmooon! your heroes and our are the same, you see , you can't walk without us, you are totally dependent upon transit trade. so dear just accept it that we are same. (:
Pakistani : Check your facts. The biggest slum of the world is in Karachiie Orangi town.
Dude, you should look Muslims as one Nation rather then splitting the Nation. We are proud of every great Muslim and you and stuck in past. No wounder Afghanistan is more busy with internal fights rather then creating some of there defence.
@Soldat Amir: You people are not able to gave name to our combined heroes this is why it is insulting for you.Don't worry we will never make a missile with the name of Karzai who is wholly solely your hero.We are remembering them because they had helped us in our difficult time.
Ah!!! Now let us test the 10,000 km missile also. Have to alarm the yanks also!!!!
@Pakistani: Please worry about the US aid and your economy. We are far far ahead of you. And regardign Allah's rehmat. we already saw that in 1965,1971, Siachen and Kargil. ;p
@Pakistan politics: And here is what your media and former Army journals say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZkYFl1NL5M
And yeah it wont pe pathetic for u bot SHOCKING. ;)
Total Waste of Nation Hard Earned Resources which can be diverted towards Education, Health, Job Creation & Economic Benefits of General Public.
@zaid hamid: So you agree India did take Pakistanis prisoners. Thank you.
@Pak007: Where were you when our military bases and GHQ come under attack? why had you not fought there against the enemies? As it was not your job the same was not of a such missile. Think about--- what would happen if there could no GHQ? To win against GHQ sort of attacks we will have to stay united and recognize our enemy not to fire a missile inside our own GHQ.
@Muhammad Usama Aziz: The reason is that too many Pakistanis are illiterates.
can we eat it?
Indian Brothers, don't consider this enmity. Our preparition are just to ensure our safety not against you.
@Soldat Amir:
Muslim is the identity of these kings. :)
Tough luck for Pakistan even though this missile test successful, India recently tested Missile defense shield and Brahmos yesterday which can fly at Mach 3. Our defense shield will take this missile out before it hits the target.
@Ghaznavi: test fail means we are making it by ourself. and look @ today's Indian missiles. you guys never understand that logic because your missiles are ready made chinese/NK missiles or copy-pasting of crash landed ones. even its paint is made in china.
All of these conquerers were Pashtoons and 60% of Pashtoons are now living in Pakistan and are proud to be Pakistanis. There hearts beats with Pakistan and Pakistan remains in their prayers.
@Ghaznavi Is pakistan missiles indigenous? Have you forgotten your hero AQ khan taking a plane to North Korea to exchange Nuke tech for Missile tech. India's only collaboration with Russia is Bramhos which can fly at Mach 3 which no one in the world has.In addition to that we build rockets to put satellites into space,so its not a big deal for India to make an ICBM.
@Pak007: Do you think all the problems you mentioned, are due to such experiments? Let me inform you, all the problems are due to miss-management and lack of devotion.The people selected by you are not competent to control the malaise of society and i think they are not interested to solve the issues. Every department is doing their own job and each has their own allocation of budget. If some departments either not working or incompetent to do so, then what your defence could do? You may better think about the miss-management not about financial crisis.Compare you military financially and professionally with your competitors and then better talk about it.
@Soldat Amir:
Was Hadrat Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, etc are Arab heroes or Muslim beloved? Great Afghan Muslim men are heroes for all Muslims. We Muslims are an ideological group, one ummah united under the flag of Islam, our nationality is not based on national, regional, linguistic, and racial feelings.
@Karan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JZ6WJGFkA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhPEaNTcWM&feature=related
thats what ur media says, pathetic :p
I guess there are more foreigners reading this newspaper than Pakistani.
@Karan....Please feed your nation first and minimise the hunger and then start the race of the missiles.... country having the biggest slum of the world should be careful in spending the money on missiles.....Pakistan kay saath Allah ki rehmat hae aur hamesha rahe gi.....app kay saath kon hae....
Bravo...congrats to the whole nation..
I appreciate the great pakistani scientists hardwork in painting the missile RED and due appreciations from the other side of the border..
@IsmailTara: IT'S NOT ISLAM I AM TALKING ABOUT, IT'S PAKISTAN SIR I REFER TO.
.Mehmood Ghaznavi was a brilliant mujahid of Islam and spread Islam by destroying temples in India. And so was Aurangzeb because he killed a Sikh Guru and so was Abdali.
so that means the hindus who demolished babri masjid or killed muslims in godhra were justified, and CHENGIZ KHAN and HALAGU KHAN who decimated islamic empires and slaughtered muslims like goats on a bakrid are also justified because they were true to their faith. please make it clear to us all.
Where are these missiles when our military bases and GHQ come under attack? All the resources for the development of such armament be utilized for eradicating poverty, hunger and educating the masses if we really want to see our country progress and prosper.
@Anoop: Just because you have intelligence quotient of zero, you don't have a right to say our scientists (MIT, harvard grads) can't develop this.
@Malatesh: Pakistan stands at number 4 in the race of nuclear arsenal even ahead of China, why china is behind Pakistan, its that because they produce and give their nuclear arms to Pakistan??? and ur Failed brahmos with low accuracy was built by Russians accept it or keep living in self denial
@John B: Like the USA, the ONLY country who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people using nuclear and conventional weapons, is getting rid of evil? :D
A time had to come like this when these cowards would bully us .....
@Soldat Amir: From your moniker I see that you still remember your Soviet overlords. Our history only extends 60 odd years so what else can we do?
@unbeliever: @Soldat Amir: You swear like there isn't a state called Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
I wish the two countries stop this stupid arm race and spend the money on betterment of society. Last time I heard, we both feature top in malnutrition and child mortality rate. Nobody in his sane mind will have war in current economic situation.
@unbeliever: they should call it afridi missile i am also afridi
@Soldat Amir: sorry he was pashtun i am afridi pashtun
@GOGA: Wow, you guys really do find a way to blame everyone but yourselves for everything.
@Proud Pakistani: Too bad the militants don't frequent this place reading comments. You probably would have become a hero by killing most of them due to suffocation from laughing so hard they couldn't get the chance to breathe.
Well done Pakistan!!
All of India's tanks, missiles, artillery, guns and nuclear war heads are 'specifically' aimed at are Pakistan centric. Indians are big liars when they say its not. We openly admit, all our weapons are India centric, so India should not caste its evil eye on us, we have the ability to gouge her eyes when it does.
Pakistan Zindabad!!
@Proud Pakistani : yea .....we saw you defend your country in Abotabad.
Mehmood Ghaznavi was a brilliant mujahid of Islam and spread Islam by destroying temples in India. And so was Aurangzeb because he killed a Sikh Guru and so was Abdali.
And i don't want to kill the nationalist spirit here but India has got some crazy Anti-Ballistic Missiles which we don't. They got some real fancy equipment too which they bought from Israel... Oh and a spying satellite too.
Its time to answer in terms of Economy, not missiles!
We are naming our missiles after rapists looters and plunderers. How we long to re-live their exploits...
"Testing" a missile is easy when you dont develop it and get it on a barter system from North Korea.
@Soldat Amir: Our heros are these missiles...:D
@unbeliever
Everyone knows that its Chinease made Ballastic missile tested in pakistan.
Watchout indians... we will not take prisoners this time
good @GS: @unbeliever: quick? how much? both missiles are of different category, and its still not a response to India's ballistic missile shield test.
@Proud Pakistani: whats this dear? answer it :D
@GS: India is buying around 500 fighter planes(250 Su-30 MKI and 250 Rafale) when you going to answer that.do it as soon as possible , India would love it.
This is great. keep engaged Pakistan in this arms race.. let them not invest in infrastructure so that their gdp growth remain the way it is.. Good move India
@Soldat Amir: no heroes's name at the present and also we are confused with our ancestry. so now we are using random names from here and there helplessly but in a cunning way. by the way we will name it after A Q Khan, afridi, imran khan in future
ABDALI GHAZNAVI GHORI and a lot more AFGHANIS
what name have you given to your islamic bomb: TIMUR LANE(UZBEK)
HAVE PAKISTANIS NOT DONE ANYTHING COMMENDABLE IN LAST MILLENIA?
This missile will be an ideal target for our ABM.:) Sorry not impressive
India also fired an Agni-4 (3500 Km IRBM) and an ABM PAD last month. We are still waiting for the reply for those pakistani scientists ;) And btw later this week K-15 SLBM will be fired followed by the Agni- 5 ICBM.:) still waiting for ur reply ;) and yeah im not getting into the MIRV capablities through PSLV & GSLV. Keep trying hard. ATB
So this is super sonic, capable of tight maneuvers and can evade ballistic missile detection?
It is time for PAK to stop playing this game of pride. First take care of the free roaming internationally wanted, and banned by UN terrorists who are bent upon destroying PAK by killing bus passengers , kidnapping children for marriage, and aid workers for ransom, and organize rally once a week to threaten everyone, including the army, in PAK .
Where is this going to carry the nuclear war head- India, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Or Baluchistan ?
looks like they were waiting for Indians to test and then embarrass them , Allah u Akbar
TTP must be shivering out of fear
That should keep the Indians on their feet! We can defend ourself better than you think. Pakistan Zindabad!
How long will you people continue to name your missiles after our kings? Last time I checked Ahmed Shah Baba was Afghan and not Pakistani.This is becoming insulting,cant you find your own heroes?
in response to the testing of brahmos missile yesterday...
pakistani scientists are really quick
*BRAVO - *
Indian test fired Brahmos Missile one day ago. Here is the "Answer" India :P