{"id":9561,"date":"2012-05-10T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:58:18","slug":"pakistan-continues-proliferate-nuclear-terrorism-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9561","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan continues to proliferate nuclear terrorism in region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan tests another nuclear-capable missile<\/strong><br \/>\n10 May, 2012 &#8211; AL Akhbar<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan carried out a successful test firing of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the Hatf III, which has a range of up to 290km and can also carry conventional warheads, came at the end of a field training exercise, a military statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago Pakistan test-fired an intermediate range ballistic missile, seen as a response to arch-rival India&#8217;s launch of its new long-range Agni V, capable of hitting targets anywhere in China.<\/p>\n<p>India and Pakistan \u2013 which have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947 \u2013 have routinely carried out missile tests since both demonstrated nuclear weapons capability in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Defense analysts say India&#8217;s strategic priorities are moving away from Pakistan to focus more on China, while Pakistan is still worried about its old foe.  <a href=\"http:\/\/english.al-akhbar.com\/content\/pakistan-tests-another-nuclear-capable-missile\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D9561&amp;text=Pakistan+continues+to+proliferate+nuclear+terrorism+in+region&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan tests another nuclear-capable missile 10 May, 2012 &#8211; AL Akhbar Pakistan carried out a successful test firing of a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Thursday, the military said. The launch of the Hatf III, which has a range of up to 290km and can also carry conventional warheads, came at the end of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=9561#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2974],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}