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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Harpoon missiles not modified: Pakistan

RGM-84 HarpoonPakistan Monday repudiated reports that it had illegally modified the US-supplied Harpoon anti-ship missile to enable them to strike at land targets in India.

"We have not and will never violate any convention or principles on that, and all international obligations are being honoured by the Pakistan Navy," naval chief Admiral Nauman Bashir said.

The US protest on the issue "is based on sheer misunderstanding, which is being clarified at the appropriate level", he told reporters on the sidelines of an international conference on piracy on the high seas.

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