Pakistan test fires missile
AFP [ SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2002 8:52:46 AM ]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan successfully test fired a missile on Saturday, a senior security officer said.
"Pakistan today carried out a successful test fire of its indigenously developed medium range surface to surface ballistic missile Hataf 5/Ghauri," said an official statement.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Articleshow.asp?art_id=10937087
US warns against travel to India, Pak
REUTERS [ SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2002 8:47:34 AM ]
WASHINGTON: Citing tensions between India and Pakistan, the US State Department on Friday urged Americans to put off travel to Pakistan and India and said any US citizens still there should consider leaving.
The United States has urged both sides to show restraint in deploying missiles and any other nuclear weapons, but Pakistan was set to begin a series of missile tests on Saturday.
"Tensions between India and Pakistan have risen to serious levels, and the risk of intensified military hostilities cannot be ruled out," the State Department said in a statement.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Articleshow.asp?art_id=10936880
The Pakastani View:
Musharraf hopes sanity will prevail: Unilateral pullback ruled out
ISLAMABAD, May 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf described on Friday the current standoff between India and Pakistan as "dangerous," but hoped good sense would prevail on both sides to defuse tension.
"But, certainly, the tensions are high and it's dangerous because India has massed its troops on the border - army, navy and air force. So, they have the capability of undertaking any adventurous act," he said, vowing to defend every inch of the motherland, if attacked.
The president said this responding to a question about chances of all-out war breaking out by Riz Khan in BBC World's 'HARDtalk Pakistan,' aired in the evening.
Musharraf hoped war would not break out. "Nobody - no sane person would like to go to war."
Asked how far he was willing to take the fighting, he declared in categorical terms: "If we are attacked, we'll certainly defend all the way, with all our might. We certainly would defend every inch of Pakistan."
http://www.dawn.com/2002/05/25/top3.htm
