CONTEXT:

• Pakistan Navy successfully test-fired an indigenous cruise missile in the Arabian Sea on 23 April 2019.

BACKGROUND:

• According to Pakistani Navy, the missile accurately hit its target on land signifying the impressive capabilities of the indigenous missile system.
• The indigenously developed cruise missile has anti-ship missile and land attack capability.
• Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Kaleem
• Shaukat witnessed the live firing, which was conducted by the Navy’s fast attack craft.