We've only reached about 2,000 km so far. Man if I was in Dr Qadir's shoes, I would have tested the missiles on Mars by now.
Any estimates when they'll get the killer 17,500 km range to cover all of the globe?
God Bless Pakistan
India Concerned About Pakistan’s Missile Test
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday expressed concern over Pakistan’s testing of a medium-range nuclear-capable missile, saying it would escalate an arms race in South Asia.
Pakistan tested on Saturday its new Ghauri V, which has a range of up to 1,500 kilometres and can strike most major population centers in northern India. Islamabad said it had notified India of the test before it was conducted. “It is escalating the arms race,” Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters on Sunday.
“Our policy is to strengthen our country… We have to take note of it and have to do what we should do,” Patil said. He didn’t elaborate.
Daily Times
Dildar, you have opened a lot of threads in this forum but they are all missing the links to the articles. All articles posted must have the link as well.
India registers concern over Pak missile test
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday expressed concern over Pakistan’s testing of a medium-range nuclear-capable missile, saying that it would escalate an arms race in South Asia.
“It is escalating the arms race,” Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters. “Our policy is to strengthen our country… We have to take note of it and have to do what we should do,” Patil said. He didn’t elaborate.
Still, Pakistan’s latest test is unlikely to hurt the peace process between the South Asian neighbors and nuclear rivals. India’s new government and Pakistan have said they are eager to pursue talks initiated by the previous Indian administration. India and Pakistan became declared nuclear powers in 1998 after they conducted underground nuclear tests. Both sides routinely test missiles and inform each other beforehand.The News International
Aslaam-alaikum
OK brother. I wasn't aware of the links bit. This is only the second day I have been posting articles on this site. I'll put the links in all of them to back up my sources.
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Japan Deeply Regrets Ballistic Missile Testing By Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, May 30 (Online): Japan has deeply regretted ballistic missile testing by Pakistan on Saturday .
This was said in a statement issued by the Press/Secretary/Director General for Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on the ballistic testing of missile Hatf V .
“It is deeply regrettable that Pakistan conducted a ballistic missile test on May 29, despite efforts by the international community for the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles”, the statement said .
Meanwhile the government of Japan hopes that the test will not bring about a negative effect on the positive developments between Pakistan and India towards improving their relations and further calls on Pakistan to respond sincerely to the efforts by the International Community for the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles .
Pakistan had successfully conducted test of its nuclear capable Hatf V Ghauri Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile on Saturday.
PakTribune
India Concerned About Pakistan’s Missile Test
NEW DELHI: India on Sunday expressed concern over Pakistan’s testing of a medium-range nuclear-capable missile, saying it would escalate an arms race in South Asia.
Pakistan tested on Saturday its new Ghauri V, which has a range of up to 1,500 kilometres and can strike most major population centers in northern India. Islamabad said it had notified India of the test before it was conducted. “It is escalating the arms race,” Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters on Sunday.
“Our policy is to strengthen our country… We have to take note of it and have to do what we should do,” Patil said. He didn’t elaborate. APP
Daily Times
Pakistani Missile Test May Fuel Arms Race: India
BANGALORE: India’s Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil Sunday apprehended that Pakistan’s latest missile test may fuel an arms race in the sub-continent.
“The government has taken note of the missile test. Though we can’t be unduly worried over everything Pakistan does, we have to secure and strengthen the country’s defence,” Patil was quoted by IANS news agency as saying.
Pakistan Saturday test fired its 1,500-km range nuclear-capable Ghauri ballistic missile.
International News Network
Missile Plan A Big Achievement, Says ISPR
ISLAMABAD, May 30: Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, the Director General, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), on Sunday said that Pakistan’s missile programme was a big achievement and the nation should be proud of it.
He was speaking during PTV’s ‘News Night’ programme about the Ghauri missile test conducted by Pakistan on Saturday. He said that the accuracy with which this missile hits its target “is a matter of pride for us.”
The missiles so far test-fired by Pakistan have achieved their targets, he added. He said that in the missile technology, guidance system and range were of prime importance. Sultan said that “we could claim with pride” that the missile “can carry various types of weapon systems” and “we had different varieties in its ranges.”
He said that “our technology was comparatively better” and could compete any type of anti-ballistic or other missile systems. Maj-Gen Sultan said that President Pervez Musharraf had repeatedly said that the balance of power was a guarantee to peace in the region.
He said that if there was balance of power then no country would commit aggression against the other. He said: “If you assure the other that if he committed aggression then he will also face irreparable loss, then it can be called balance of power.”
He said that if “we maintained the balance” then it will lead to peace in the region and nobody would be able to commit aggression. Talking about the situation in Wana, the ISPR director general said that the whole nation was aware about the development there during the last few months. -APP
Dawn
well, all hopes of a better positive attitude cooperative non-paranoid indian govt seem to have been shattered for Pakistan with this irresponsible, foolish and rather arrogant statement by the week old Indian govt. they maintain there threatening-threatened stance Vajpayee/Jaswant/Advani style. at leatsd i didnt expect this from the so called "cool headed" Manmohan Singh, and that too within a week. for a remarkable change they could have congratulated Pakistan instead! and i dont think it was meant to be seen as muscle flexing by Pakistan. lets hold our breaths and see where relations head under the new govt...let good hope never die!
(and yeah, im sure they are not jealous, its just stubbroness. they have equally capable misiles)
Indians are expecting Pakistan to stop testing Missile for the sake of talks, but in reality they just trying to slow the development down.
I don't know what this new indian government will brainwash it's citizens with but then again I hope it's for the benefit of the South Asian people.
I'm positive that Manmohan who was born in Islamabad and Musharraf who was born in New Dehli will bring peace to the sub-continent.
What development? We are testing North Korean designs.
Pakistan - The Only Islamic Super Power
Ghauri missile can hit targets across India - (01/06/2004)
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: “The Ghauri missile represents both an opportunity to use heavier uranium bombs on ballistic missiles, as well as to deliver nuclear warheads to targets across much of India,” according to the authoritative online site Global Security.
The Ghauri, the online source confirms, was developed by Dr AQ Khan-led Khan Research Laboratories, Kahuta, responsible for the development of uranium weapons. In the early 1980s, China was believed to have provided Pakistan with the blueprints for a 1966 design of a U-235 nuclear-implosion device, of the type used in the warhead that China flew on a DF-2A missile during its fourth nuclear test on 27 October 1966. This missile warhead was reported to weigh about 1,300 kilograms with a yield of 12-25 kilo tonne.
This warhead design, said Global Security, would be too large to be carried on an M-11, which does not have the range to reach beyond the Indian Desert to threaten New Delhi or other large population centres. Pakistan has stated that the range and payload capacity of the missile will be upgraded, also claiming that the missile had “no relevance” to China’s M-11 missile, which is confirmed by analysis suggesting that the Ghauri appears to be a derivative of the North Korean Nodong design.
The Ghauri was first named Hataf-V, but later it was changed to Ghauri after the 12th century Afghan king Shahbuddin Ghauri who captured western parts of India between 1176 and 1182. He also took control of northern India by defeating Prithvi Raj Chauhan in 1192. “The Ghauri name is thus highly symbolic, as ‘Prithvi’ is the name of the Indian short-range ballistic missiles, and Pakistan’s ‘Ghauri’ has a much longer range than the Indian missile,” according to the online defence news source. Global Security notes that on 6 April 1998, Pakistan carried out a successful flight test of the surface-to-surface Hatf-V (Ghauri) missile with a range of 1,500 kilometres (937 miles) and a payload capacity of 700 kg. The missile was tested to hit a target at a range of 1,100 km. Fired from Malute, near the city of Jhelum, it hit a target near Quetta, a distance of some 700 km, significantly less than the claimed range of up to 1,500 km/930 miles.
The Indian test of the Agni II IRBM was conducted on April 11, 1999. Pakistan responded on April 14, 1999 with the test firing of its Ghauri II missile from the Jhelum region. The missile reportedly struck a target in the Balochistan desert about 1,100 km away. “It would appear that if the missile was fired directly due east, the effect of the earth’s rotation would give it a range of 1,240 km. Fired in a southerly direction towards major urban targets in India, it could reach a range of some 950 km-1,120 km,” according to Global Security.
On August 15, 2000 when India was celebrating Independence Day, objects streaking through the skies in Balochistan are believed to have been either the Ghauri-III or perhaps a meteor shower. On May 25, 2002 Pakistan tested the Ghauri, the first of a series of “routine” tests which came during a tense standoff with India over Kashmir. On Saturday May 29 this year, Pakistan test fired a Hatf-5 (Ghauri) missile with the test reportedly aimed at improving the technical parameters of the missile system.
Daily Times
There has been a sleepness in the Indian missile operational arena.
This might be mainly because of the reason that Indians do know that another war with pakistan is a distant possibility and China seems to be closing more to India .
Pakistan Test Fires new Missile,
Pakistan has test fired its new nuclear carrier capability missile with long range. 28th May was the day of Pakistan history's glory which was spent without any sort of celebration activity of any kind just to please our big boss who is in fact the biggest enemy of Pakistan and not India as is wrongly considered. Not a single world of remembrance of uttered on TV, radio, on newspapers particularly by Every Green Guru Nazir Najis columnists. Only in order to reduce the effects of this shameless silence the new missile was tested the very next day to win the public minds.
But what is use of manufacturing and testing such weapons if we do not have heart to hold ourselves a little while bold enough to show the world we have this. In just a minute then and there we bow Yes We Are With You. We had no choice but to say we are with you but at least after showing a little courage that we will tell you tomorrow. If we do not have even that much courage then these ordinary missiles or nuclear carrier missiles all are worthless.
Do you ever hear of Europeans testing their missiles or celebrating thier maiden flights?
No!
Do you ever hear of Indians testing their missiles or celebrating their maiden flights?
No!
Why the hell do Pakistanis go on and on showing off to the whole world where their secret weapon is and what they're doing with it?
It makes Pakistan look like a Shoda country.