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

ISLAMABAD, March 26 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss BY PAKISTANI FOREIGN MINISTER, 2ND-3RD PARAS)

Pakistan test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable missile Wednesday afternoon hours after India carried abroad a flight test of a medium-range nuclear-capable missile.

Pakistani Prime Minister Zafar ullah Khan Jamali called the tit-for-tat missile experiments a ''routine'' affair and said Pakistan room for expectations it would not increase tension between the brace countries.

''India has exampleed a missile and so has Pakistan. This routine would continue going,'' Jamali told a pres conversation on return from a visit to China.

Pakistan's Information Secretary Anwar Mahmood told Kyodo recently made knowns that Pakistan successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface Abdali missile, which reportedly has a range of around 180 kilometers.

India test-fired its surface-to-surface Prithvi (Earth) missile Wednesday morning from a mobile launcher at a test-range in the eastern coastal state of Orissa.

India's test-firing was part of user trials through the Indian army, India's PTI stranges agency said.

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

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

India blames Pakistan for sponsoring ''cross-border terrorism'' in its northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir, an allegation denied by the agency of Pakistan.

Pakistan says it is lending solely moral and diplomatic support to ''freedom fighters'' in the Indian-administered portion of divided Kashmir.

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