<p class="title">In an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system which could speed up the development of multi-warhead missiles by its all-weather ally, state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Zheng Mengwei, a researcher with the CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics in Chengdu, Sichuan province, confirmed to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post that Pakistan had bought a highly sophisticated, large-scale optical tracking and measurement system from China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Pakistani military recently deployed the Chinese-made system "at a firing range" for use in testing and developing new missiles, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China was the first country to export such sensitive equipment to Pakistan, the CAS said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Post report attributed the sale of the equipment to Pakistan to India testing the most advanced nuclear-ready intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-V with a range long enough to hit Beijing or Shanghai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chinese authorities declassified information about the sale of the tracking system yesterday.</p>
<p class="title">In an unprecedented deal, China has sold Pakistan a powerful tracking system which could speed up the development of multi-warhead missiles by its all-weather ally, state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Zheng Mengwei, a researcher with the CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics in Chengdu, Sichuan province, confirmed to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post that Pakistan had bought a highly sophisticated, large-scale optical tracking and measurement system from China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Pakistani military recently deployed the Chinese-made system "at a firing range" for use in testing and developing new missiles, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China was the first country to export such sensitive equipment to Pakistan, the CAS said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Post report attributed the sale of the equipment to Pakistan to India testing the most advanced nuclear-ready intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Agni-V with a range long enough to hit Beijing or Shanghai.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Chinese authorities declassified information about the sale of the tracking system yesterday.</p>