Pakistan on Wednesday tested the short-range, nuclear-capable Ghaznavi ballistic missile (seen in the picture), which can target northern and western Indian cities, as the government vowed to “retain a strong conventional and unconventional deterrence”, reports PTI from Islamabad.

A strategic missile group of the Pakistan Army conducted a successful training launch of the Ghaznavi or Hatf-III missile with a range of 290 km at the end of an annual field training exercise from an undisclosed location. This is the third test of nuclear-capable missiles by Pakistan since late January.

Earlier, the Shaheen-I ballistic missile, which has a range of 700 km, and the Ghauri ballistic missile with a range of 1,300 km, were successfully tested by the the Army’s Strategic Force Command.