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Pak set to test-fire Shaheen II

"It (Shaheen II) is ready for testing and we are only awaiting the orders," Pakistan's nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was quoted as saying by the media in Islamabad on Monday.

Pakistan had test fired Shaheen I, a medium-range missile with a firing range of up to 750 kms, on April 15 last year and has undertaken serial production after its induction in the army.

Shaheen I, a surface-to-surface missile, is road-mobile and can also be fired from a static platform, Pakistani media reports said.

Qadeer said Pakistan has a 'stockpile of missiles and atom bombs and can hit almost all the major Indian cities. I can even name the cities but that would not be proper'.

Claiming that Pakistan has a fool-proof and flawless system in place for delivery of nuclear weapons, Khan said, "Our nuclear facilities are at par with similar facilities in any part of the world."

Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear programme, said, "We had crossed the nuclear threshold in 1985 but had to defer tests on one pretext or the other till we were provoked by our neighbour to go nuclear."

Pakistan's clandestine missile programme, according to Western reports, is an extension of the Chinese and North Korean missile technologies.

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