Pakistani military test-fires medium-range cruise missile
Pakistan has successfully test-fired a revised version of a locally developed medium-range cruise missile.
Pakistan's military said in a statement on Wednesday that the newer version of Babur cruise missile was launched from an undisclosed location.
The missile has a range of 700 kilometers and it can strike targets both on land and at sea.
According to the statement, the low-flying, terrain-hugging missile is also capable of carrying various types of warheads.
Pakistan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat congratulated the missile project's scientists and engineers on "achieving yet another milestone of great value and significance."
The test-fire is the latest in a series of tests conducted by Pakistan and its arch-rival India since both demonstrated their nuclear weapons capability in 1998.
Pakistan has also been engaged in an arms race with its neighbor, India, since the partition of the two countries in 1947.
Both neighbors have refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and other international regulatory pacts that restrict developing or testing nuclear weapons.
India considers the NPT as discriminatory, while Pakistan has indicated that it will not join the international treaty until its neighbor does.
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