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Pakistan tests its first cruise missile

12 août 2005, 00:00

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Pakistan successfully tested yesterday a nuclear-capable, ground-launched cruise missile, which has a range of 500 km, a military spokesman said. Pakistan reached an agreement last week with nuclear armed rival India to inform each other about missile tests but military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said the agreement did not cover the cruise missile, called “Babur”.

“We don’t have to inform neighbouring countries in this case. It is not a ballistic missile and it doesn’t fall under the agreement,” he said. The Babur is a terrain-hugging missile that can avoid radar detection, the military said. Pakistan and India tested nuclear weapons in 1998.

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