Source: AFP
Two people were killed and two wounded Wednesday when a missile fired from Afghanistan landed near a border post in a Pakistani tribal area, a senior security official said.
It was not clear if the missile that hit the troubled Bajaur district was launched by Taliban militants in Afghanistan or international forces fighting them, the […]

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Source: Reuters
By Sahibzada Bahauddin
DAMADOLA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Angry residents of a Pakistani village on the Afghan border stopped government officials on Thursday from approaching the ruins of a house struck by missiles suspected to have been fired by a U.S. drone.
Eighteen people including foreign militants were killed when two missiles hit a house in the […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan said that a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead anywhere in India is ready for wartime use after troops launched it on Monday during a field exercise.
Scientists and engineers had prepared the Hatf VI missile, also known as Shaheen II, for the exercise with a test-firing on Saturday.
Monday’s […]

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Source: Reuters
KARACHI (Reuters) - India’s successful test-firing of a nuclear-capable, submarine-launched missile will trigger a new arms race in the region, Pakistan’s navy chief said on Wednesday.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their partition and independence in 1947, and nearly went to war a fourth time in 2002, but relations have improved […]

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Source: The Hindu
Nirupama Subramanian
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf reiterated on Friday that his country was capable of thwarting all threats to its sovereignty and nuclear capability, even as the Pakistan Army Strategic Force Command (ASFC) conducted a training launch of an intermediate ballistic missile.
The military said the launch of the nuclear-capable Ghauri, also known as Hatf […]

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Source: Dawn
India’s missile scientists have said that the country’s indigenous missile programme is flagging and needs foreign assistance to revive it.
The embarrassing admission came amid claims by Indian analysts that Pakistan’s missile programme had proved to be more robust and surefooted than India’s. The Mail Today newspaper on Wednesday quoted the Defence Research and Development […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s military vowed a strong response to any international attempt to seize its atomic arsenal as the army successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile on Tuesday.
The security of Pakistan’s estimated 50 nuclear warheads has been under global scrutiny since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency on November 3 citing […]

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Source: BBC News
Pakistan has successfully test-fired a new cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, its military said.
The locally developed missile, named Hatf-VII (or Babur), has a range of 700km (430 miles), a military spokesman told reporters.
Pakistan and its neighbour India - both nuclear powers - routinely carry out missile tests.

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