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Pakistan tests short-range missile

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(CNN) -- Pakistan successfully tested a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a range of 200 kilometers (124 miles) Saturday, the Pakistan Army said in a statement.

The Hatf-II Abdali missile was "indigenously developed" and can carry "all types of warheads," according to the army, which did not disclose the test's location in Pakistan.

Last month Pakistan test-fired a new version of a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 2000 km (1,245 miles).

That missile was believed to have been launched from a firing range north of Karachi, where the military typically conducts such tests.

Pakistan's latest comes about a week after neighboring nuclear rival India tested its indigenously developed air-to-air Astra missile, with a range of up to 80 kilometers (50 miles), according to The Associated Press.

Missile tests have become more routine in Pakistan, and its government notifies neighboring India in advance of all tests, CNN's Syed Mohsin Naqvi in Pakistan said on Friday.

Last year both nuclear countries reached an agreement stipulating that each will notify the other before conducting missile tests.

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