Army’s New Missile Can Carry Nuclear Warhead
From Times Wire Reports
Pakistan’s army received a new medium-range, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile as part of what the government called a deterrence policy against belligerence in the region.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who attended a ceremony marking the delivery of the Hatf-IV missile, did not refer by name to South Asian nuclear rival India. The two countries went to the brink of war last year over the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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