By KUNA
Islamabad : Pakistan Wednesday voicing concerns over Tuesdays Indian test-firing of nuclear missile from an undersea platform said that it was starting a new arms race in the region.
“This is going to start a new arms race in the region”, said the Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Afzal Tahir while talking to newsmen in southern Karachi port city. “We are aware of these developments and these developments are taking place with a view to put nuclear weapons at sea and it is a very very serious issue”, he said.
India on Tuesday tested its K-15 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from a submersible pontoon launcher however, with indications that the test was not a full success.
The missile has a strike range of 700km and, according to press reports, it did not meet all the pre-flight parameters laid down for the test conducted from the launcher submerged under the sea.