ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday successfully test fired a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Hatf IX has a range of 60 kilometres and can carry conventional warheads, the military said.
“This quick response system addresses the need to deter evolving threats, especially at shorter ranges,” it added in a statement.
Director General of Strategic Plans Division Lt Gen (retd) Khalid Ahmed Kidwai termed the missile as a weapon of peace, saying that the test was a major development which would consolidate Pakistan’s deterrence capability at all levels of the threat spectrum, thereby ensuring peace in the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 30th, 2012.
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History is witness Arm Race is not a good trend but country against a country is compelled to make weapons in match.
India manufactured nuclear bomb,Pakistan compelled to think about its security and forced by the circumstances so committed explosion and became nuclear armed state.
Arms race is continued,test per test are being done,there is no international authority who stop them to do so.
People of both the country are very poor,they are under cover of hunger and poverty.
Power is being used in other fields,people are facing power crisis, shortage of power and gas industries are going to close,unemployment spreading out on both sides.
Weapon making trend is not a solution,leaders from both sides should come across the table and resolve all the issue.
Don't push then in the deep mud, pull them from the mud of poverty.
Congrats. Of what use is this to 85% of the populace when there is no safety of life and property, no basic amenities like electricity for domestic and industrial purpose ? Really what brownie points are the govt trying to get from these kind of achievements. If this is for India's benefit, it can safely be said that it hasn't caused a ripple. No amount of arms and ammunitions will threaten India. What might cause a few heads to turn will be the all round development of Pakistan. Tha by the look of things doesn't seem possible.