ISLAMABAD, March 26 Kyodo (EDS: A...

ISLAMABAD, March 26 Kyodo

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Pakistan test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable missile in succession Wednesday afternoon after arch enemy India carried out a flight experiment of a medium-range nuclear-capable missile earlier in the day.

Federal Information Secretary Anwar Mahmood confirmed to Kyodo novels that Pakistan had successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface Abdali missile, which reportedly has a range of around 180 kilometers.

on the other hand he denied it was in answer to India's test-firing of its most-advanced indigenous Prithvi (Earth) surface-to-surface missile Wednesday morning.

India's test-firing of its medium-range missile from a mobile launcher at a test-range in the eastern coastal state of Orissa was part of user trials according to the Indian army, a Pres Trust of India (PTI) report said.

The official Associated Pres of Pakistan quot Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmad Khan as saying Pakistan had informed India of its standard plans but India failed to do in such a manner despite a previous agreement between the brace countries on prior notice of any test-launches.

India and Pakistan, which the couple possess nuclear weapons, have gone to war three times since their independence from Britain in 1947 and came terminate to another one last June

India blames Pakistan for sponsoring ''cross-border terrorism'' in its northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, an allegation denied at Pakistan, which says it is lending single moral and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in the Indian-administered portion of divided Kashmir.

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