Pakistan Test Fires Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile Days After Launch By Archrival India

Pakistan's Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile

Pakistan has test fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on 25^th April 2012 days after its neighbour and archenemy India conducted its own missile test “Agni V”.

        The military said Pakistani missile Hatf IV Shaheen-1A was fired into sea. Exact range of the Pakistani missile has not been revealed, but according to defence experts it can hit targets upto 3000 km (1,850 miles) away.

         India’s Agni-V long-range intercontinental ballistic missile which was launched from odisha, has a range of more than 5000 km (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets in China within range.