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Pakistan test fires Abdali missle
Pakistan tested its Babur cruise missile last weekend, which has a range of 700km [AP] 
Pakistan has successfully tested a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic, the military said.
 
Saturday's test was the second test firing of the surface-to-surface Hatf-11 Abdali missile within a month. It can travel up to 200km.
The military said in a statement: "The test was aimed at validation of the desired technical parameters which has been successfully achieved."
 
Last week, Pakistan test fired a nuclear-capable Hatf-V11 Babur cruise missile with a range of 700km.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India routinely carry out missile tests despite a peace process they launched in early 2004, and both have agreed to inform each other of such tests in advance.
 
Pakistan and India carried out tit-for-tat nuclear weapons tests in 1998.
Source: Agencies
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