Shafaqna India: Islamabad on Thursday accused New Delhi of not fully complying with the agreement on advance notification of ballistic missile tests when India conducted its first successful test flight of a domestically developed missile capable of carrying multiple warheads.
As part of the agreement on pre-notification of the flight testing of ballistic missiles, Pakistan and India are bound to share advance notice for any testing.
Speaking at the weekly briefing, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said Pakistan had taken note of the India missile test on the 11th March.
“The advance notification was shared by India but it did not follow the 3-day timeline as stipulated in Article 2 of the Agreement on Pre-notification of the Fight Testing of Ballistic Missiles,” the spokesperson said while replying to a question.
“The agreement on pre-notification we believe must be complied with in letter and spirit,” she stressed.
India successfully conducted its first test flight of a domestically developed missile that can carry multiple warheads, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday.
The missile is equipped with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology, Modi said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
India has been developing its medium-range and long-range missile systems since the 1990s as its strategic competition with China grows.
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In 2021, India successfully tested Agni-5, a nuclear-capable Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) with a range of 5,000 kilometres (3,125 miles) that is believed to be capable of targeting nearly all of China. Agni missiles are long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles.
India is also able to strike anywhere in neighbouring Pakistan, its arch rival with which it has fought three wars since they gained independence from British colonisers in 1947.
