Pakistan Saturday successfully test-fired a short range ballistic missile, said the military in a statement.

A Strategic Missile Group (SMG) of the Pakistan Army’s Strategic Force Command (ASFC) conducted a successful launch of the Short Range Ballistic Missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi), having a range of 290 Kilometers, said the statement.

This was the third launch of a ballistic missile in as many weeks as part of the training exercises of the ASFC, it said, adding that two other SMGs had earlier conducted successful launches of the Ghauri and Shaheen-1 ballistic missiles last month.

The launch came at the culmination phase of the training exercise, which validated the operational readiness of the SMG equipped with Ghaznavi Missiles.