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Pakistan test fires ballistic missile

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, May 29, IRNA - Pakistan on Saturday test fired a 
medium-range Ghauri missile, a military spokesman said. 
"Pakistan today carried out a successful test fire of its 
indigenously developed medium-range ballistic missile Hatf-5 
(Ghauri)," the Pakistani military spokesman Major General Shaukat 
Sultan said. 
"The test was aimed at improving the technical parameters of 
missile system. There is no other objective of the test," Sultan said.
The spokesman said that the missile can carry all kind of 
warheads. "The missile hit the target successfully." 
He said according to the data collected from the test, all design 
parameters have been successfully validated. He did not offer any 
comment about the area where the test has been conducted but said the 
launching and the target area was in Pakistan. 
To a question the spokesman said that the neighbouring countries 
were given advance information about the test in accordance with the 
laws. 
It is Pakistan`s first missile test since the installation of new 
government in India. 
The range of Hatf-V is less than Pakistan`s another Shaheen 
missile, which had the range of 2,500 kilometers. 
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali witnessed the test fire, 
according to state-run television. 
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