India, Pakistan restart arms race
By Kathy Gannon
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —
South Asia appeared closer to a
full-blown arms race after Pakistan
tested its second nuclear-capable
missile in two days Thursday, up
ping the ante on its rival India.
The latest test was of the Sha
heen I, a surface-to-surface missile
with a range of 450 miles, consid
erably shorter than the Ghauri n,
tested by Pakistan the day before.
The Ghauri II was tested in ap
parent response to India’s test flight
of its Agni II missile on Sunday.
Each missile, with a range of about
1,200 miles, can strike anywhere in
the other country’s territory.
All three missiles can carry a
nuclear or conventional payload
of2,200 pounds.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry
said its series of missile tests was
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over “for now” — but that did lit
tle allay fears that the round of
tests had put the two countries
firmly on a spiral of missile one
upmanship.
That is what the international
community has been trying to
avert ever since the two neighbors
exploded nuclear devices last
year. India and Pakistan have
fought three wars in the past 51
years and it is feared that in a new
confrontation they could turn to
nuclear weapons.
After Wednesday’s test, both
countries moved to allay those
fears. Pakistan’s foreign ministry
issued a statement explaining that
the tests “will help in maintaining
a strategic balance in South Asia.”
India’s Foreign Minister
Jaswant Singh said only: “There is
no arms race in South Asia.”
Officials said the Shaheen I’s six
minute test flight was conducted at
9:58 a.m. (9:58 p.m. PDT) at the
Sonmiani naval base, 30 miles from
Pakistan’s southern port city of
Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast.
Official sources said the more
advanced Shaheen II missile, with
a range of 1,400 miles, was ready
and waiting to be tested. But there
was no word on when or if that
might occur.
After the test, U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan called for an
international agreement on con
trols on missile development, his
spokesman said.
Annan "feels strongly that the
recent tests by India and Pakistan
of medium-range missiles... have
underscored the need for multilat
erally negotiated norms against
the development of such
weapons,” U.N. spokesman Fred
Eckhard said.
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