ISLAMABAD, May 27 Kyodo Chief of ...

ISLAMABAD, May 27 Kyodo

Chief of the Air Staff, Chief Air Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir said Monday that the missile touchstones carried out Saturday and Sunday were happy and more tests would be conducted

''There would be more tests'' Mir told reporters at a graduation rite for pilots at Risalpur Air Academy, about 125 kilometers north of Islamabad in the North West Frontier Province.

Pakistan earlier informed regional countries last week that it would carry not at home a series of missile criterions from Saturday to Tuesday, to confirm technical and other data required for its indigenous missile disentanglement program.

The native land tested its medium-range Ghauri missile and short-range Ghaznavi missile forward Saturday and Sunday respectively. It would also reportedly test-fire another 2-stage, solid firing propellant medium-range Shaheen-2 missile onward either Monday or Tuesday.

Pakistan will also celebrate the fourth anniversary of conducting nuclear touchstones at Chagai in Baluchistan upon Tuesday.

The region carried out nuclear tests in May 1998 after India actionsed similar ones.

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