The Hindu : Third Pak. missle test-fired

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, May 29, 2002

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Third Pak. missle test-fired

Islamabad, May 28. (PTI): Defying international call for restraint, Pakistan today test fired its third nuclear-capable ballistic missile shortly after British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived here to hold talks on defusing tension with India.

Pakistan conducted a successful test launch of the short range Abdali missile -- the third and final test in a series that began on Friday, state-run PTV reported today.

The missile, which has the range of 180-kms coincided with Pakistan's fourth anniversary of its nuclear tests at Chagai in Baluchistan province in response to Pokhran explosions carried out by India.

Pakistan on Saturday test-fired a nuclear-capable medium-range Hatf-V (Ghauri) having a range of 1500 km and on Sunday a newly- developed short-range Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) capable of carrying warheads up to 290 km "with great accuracy".

Pakistan launched the Abdali missile even as Jack Straw landed here as part of an international efforts to ease tension between India and Pakistan.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Safanov is also here to push forward President Vladimir Putin's proposal for a face-to-face meeting between Indian and Pakistani leaders during a regional conference in Kazakhstan's capital Almaty early next month.

President Pervez Musharraf in a nationally televised speech last night said the danger of war with India was not yet over and urged the international community to persuade New Delhi to de-escalate and resume Indo-Pak dialogue.

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