Pakistan successfully tests night launch of surface to surface ballistic missile Ghaznavi: ISPR
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Pakistan has successfully carried out the night training launch of Ghaznavi, a surface to surface ballistic missile, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said on Thursday.
The missile "is capable of delivering multiple types of warheads up to 290 kilometres", said Maj Gen Ghafoor via a tweet, which also included a video of the launch.
According to DG ISPR, the president and prime minister "conveyed appreciation to the team and congratulations to the nation" for the successful testing of the missile.
Earlier in May, Pakistan conducted a successful training launch of Shaheen-II, a surface-to-surface ballistic missile.
In January, Pakistan witnesses another successful launch of the tactical ballistic missile Nasr as part of the Army Strategic Forces Command training exercise.
The missile is capable of defeating — by assured penetration — "any currently available BMD [Ballistic Missile Defence] system in our neighbourhood or any other system under procurement [or] development", the military's media wing had said.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:29am
Congratulations, keep it up.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:40am
What is wrong with this region. One of the poorest sub-continent 1 billion people live below poverty line in India, Pak and Bangaldesh but these countries spend billions on these toys.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:41am
Excellent work by the military. The best defence is a good offence... Bravo
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Aug 29, 2019 11:45am
Good. Army is always ready to defend Pakistan.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:58am
Congratulations to the nation and the team of scientists for further strengthening nation’s defence. Proud moment for all of us.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:59am
Well done Pakistan.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:04pm
Is it to divert attention of people from oncoming economic gloom?
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Aug 29, 2019 12:14pm
Proud to be a Pakistani!
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Aug 29, 2019 12:34pm
Pakistan Zindabad .
Being a PhD scholar abroad in Europe, I would have loved to see a research innovation news instead of these warheads.
We need brains more than muscles to lead the world !!
Pakistan Zindabad,Pak army paindabad !!
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Aug 29, 2019 12:35pm
As a pakistani, i am not amused by this kind of reaction from Pakistan. In my opinion, Imran Khan should not detract from the economic development promise that he came with. He is getting sucked into this kashmir issue. Kashmir issue is an important issue but there are only two options to get it resolved.
1. Economically become stronger. This has to be done without jolting the opposition too much even if they are wrong. That's the fundamental of diplomacy at this stage
2. Get into a full fledged war with India. Either decide to get perished or earn your kill.
what Pakistan is doing is they are running in the middle of these two lines and that's why they are facing criticism.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:38pm
Well done Pakistan
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Aug 29, 2019 12:43pm
Pakistan Zindabad
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Aug 29, 2019 12:46pm
Keep it up. War is near. We all as nation ready to live and die for our country only.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:52pm
Great, penetrating, bold and beautiful move. For sure, offence is by far, the best defense. Well done, keep it up and hand on tough.
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Aug 29, 2019 12:55pm
Fanatics on both the sides, will destroy our beautiful shared civilization, and we are all but mute spectators..
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Aug 29, 2019 12:56pm
Awesome
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Aug 29, 2019 12:57pm
Great achievement of our professional soldiers
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Aug 29, 2019 12:57pm
Another success story of our brave and loyal army and security forces - another surprise for our enemies. Well done and nation is proud of you!
(The original 'Anti-Corruption_Pakistani' expressing impartial views for over 3 years. So be aware of fake ID's).
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Aug 29, 2019 01:01pm
Very Dangerous sign for India
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Aug 29, 2019 01:09pm
This is beautiful. This is a great achievement under PMIK. He guides army well
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Aug 29, 2019 01:43pm
Congratulations, keep testing them.
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Aug 29, 2019 01:49pm
Congratulations from India
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Aug 29, 2019 01:49pm
Awesome.
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Aug 29, 2019 01:51pm
Congratulation.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:11pm
Excellent innovation and research work.....congratulation to all engineers......
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Aug 29, 2019 02:17pm
Congratulations....
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Aug 29, 2019 02:30pm
Congrats Pakistan and Army, However, we need to work in parallel in improving economic conditions also which have direct impact on a common Pakistani.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:32pm
Game Changer!
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Aug 29, 2019 02:38pm
No startups. No businesses. Just missiles like in North Korea.
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Aug 29, 2019 02:58pm
Many congratulations. Proud of our Army.
(I am the original account holder of this account and I don't work for PTI media cell)
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Aug 29, 2019 04:05pm
Congratulations to our scientist and engineers,nation is proud of you.
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Aug 29, 2019 04:56pm
Outstanding! Science and Technology is the key to independnce, peace and prosperity.
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Aug 29, 2019 06:58pm
Good. Another one for the museum with no prospect of ever being used!
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Aug 29, 2019 07:22pm
Congratulations!!!
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Aug 29, 2019 09:28pm
Wish there was a missile that could target inflation and high prices.
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Aug 29, 2019 10:53pm
@Karachiwala, it's difficult to solve real problems; easy to fight each other.
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Aug 29, 2019 11:20pm
So those missiles weren't tested until now?
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Aug 30, 2019 12:01am
Well done! Now let's focus on feeding the poor.
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Aug 30, 2019 05:25am
Not sure what testing at night would achieve extra. Are these missiles fitted with night-vision camera or night-vision binoculars now? Never knew missiles need those.onboard computer decides using input coordinates decides the target. And this target can be hit day or night. Similarly, BMD does not use human eye or night-vision camera to look for incoming missiles. Someone, please enlighten me.
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Aug 30, 2019 09:48am
Long live Pakistan.
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Aug 30, 2019 01:15pm
@Raja , in the day time, much more can be seen from satellites, reconnaissance crafts or drones (even though they have night vision cameras as well). what I think is that they have tried to make sure that they could camouflage their movement of the batteries taking note of all these aspects and not getting detected until the missile is fuelled and launched. it could also mean that all of them would have been wearing night time goggles, the instrumentation panels would be in night mode and so many other things which are just common sense considerations. What about movement of nuclear warheads? they could emit so strong a radiation signature that it can be picked up by the US and Russians? maybe by Sats or something else.
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Aug 30, 2019 05:35pm
Salute to our brave scientists and engineers, our real heros.
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Aug 30, 2019 06:45pm
Congrats from india
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Aug 30, 2019 11:52pm
@Socialist, Which world do you live in! RSS - BJP is taking over India and causing problems, to say the least in Kashmir. What do you expect Pakistan to do? Listen to pacifists and appeasers like you.
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