Pakistan on Tuesday successfully test-fired Hatf-III (Ghaznavi), a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 290 kilometres, that could cover parts of India.
The "successful training launch" concluded the Field Training Exercise of Strategic Missile Group of Army Strategic Forces Command, the military said in a statement here.
The launch was witnessed by the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Rashad Mahmood, Director General Strategic Plans Division, Lt. Gen. Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Commander, Army Strategic Forces Command, Lt. Gen. Obaidullah Khan, Chairman, NESCOM, Muhammad Irfan Burney and other senior military officials and scientists at an undisclosed location.
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