The Pakistan Navy has test fired the "Zarb" surface to sea missile and formally inducted it into its Navy defence system, aimed at thwarting any possible aggression by adversaries from the Arabian sea.
"The missile was fired from a strategic point located at a coastal area which successfully hit its target in the Arabian sea," Dawn quoted Nadeem Bokhari,a spokesman for the Pakistan Navy Commodore as saying in statement issued from naval headquarters in Islamabad.
Terming the successful test as an addition to Islamabad's strategic power against the enemy, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zakaullah said that its Navy will continue to modernise its maritime in meeting defence and security challenges.
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