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Pakistan successfully test fires Ghauri Missile

Missile can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads upto a distance of 1,300 kilometres

Web Desk April 15, 2015

PHOTO: ISPR

Pakistan successfully conducted a training launch of Ghauri Missile system on Wednesday, according to Inter Services Public Relations.

Ghauri Ballistic Missile can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads upto a distance of 1,300 kilometres.

The launch was conducted by a strategic missile group of the Army Strategic Forces Command that was aimed at testing the operational and technical readiness of the command.

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The launch was witnessed by senior officers from Strategic Plans Division, strategic forces, scientists and engineers of strategic organisations.

While congratulating the scientists, engineers and all ranks of Strategic Forces, Director General Strategic Plans Division Lieutenant General Zubair Mahmood Hayat expressed his full satisfaction over the excellent standard achieved by the Strategic Forces.

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President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif congratulated the Strategic Forces, scientists and engineers on the achievement.

COMMENTS (12)

Fayyaz Muhammad | 9 years ago | Reply Testing any missile is not a problem, it's in fact publicisng and making others acknowledge your amunition capabilities which send warning to your foes, as simple as that. As for names, names do not ensure any victory or threat, it is the material and spirit with which armies take on their enemies.

usman777 | 9 years ago | Reply As if Indian program isn't non-indigenous. To pretend otherwise is a joke on yourself.

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Raheela | 9 years ago | Reply @NaeemLogari: "Don’t know why you people use Afghans name" There was no such thing as Afghanistan before 1893, and before that the entity closest to anything resembling present-day Afghanistan was the Durrani empire. That too didn't exist before 1744. Pakistan has named its missiles after people who existed long before 1744, and for most of its history the land now held by Afghanistan was a never an independent country; it was occasionally under Mongol and Greek rule but for the most part it was a part of the Persian empire and thoroughly Persianized for thousands of years. There was no such thing as Afghanistan or even the Afghan people for most of human history.

Rex Minor | 9 years ago | Reply One wonders when the Pakistan military will declare to their Prime Minister that they have a missile for every city in the neighbouring country? Afterall, the Indian villages will be spared in any conflict since they have one hundred percent civilians folks living in them. Rex Minor

Tiger | 9 years ago | Reply @Hamdani: And that institution is KRL, which has contributed most to Pakistani defense.

NaeemLogari | 9 years ago | Reply Don't know why you people use Afghans name.. don't you have a single hero to name your missiles after him ummm or is it because you guys are going through an identity crisis...

Shridhar | 9 years ago | Reply @Jibran, Even I was thinking in the same line...why to waste precious missiles when we know it is already tested & working fine....Yes unless they are making any improvement on it....

3rdRockFromTheSun | 9 years ago | Reply Stop guys, you will run out of your China supplied stock, just in testing the "operational readiness"! At least keep some in case of a real war!

Sarfaraz Abbasi | 9 years ago | Reply Congrats Pakistan

Haider | 9 years ago | Reply Congrats Pakistan Army

Jibran | 9 years ago | Reply What is the point of testing when all tests as far as I remember have always been successful. I mean seriously, when I go out on a normal day, I can't guarantee that I won't stumble even though I walk regularly. And here we are talking about missiles.

Hamdani | 9 years ago | Reply Great going. Make Pakistan Proud. We have one institution that has the capability to match the world.

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