Pakistani missile research and development program: Difference between revisions

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The '''Hatf Program'''<ref name="Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control">{{cite web |title=Pakistan Derives its First "Hatf" Missiles from Foreign Space Rockets |url=https://www.wisconsinproject.org/pakistan-derives-its-first-hatf-missiles-from-foreign-space-rockets/ |website=Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control |access-date=20 August 2023 |date=1 October 1995}}</ref><ref name="Defence Journal, 1998" /> ([[Urdu]]: حتف; [[Transliteration|''Trans''.]] ''ḥāṯaʿf'', meaning: [[Aiming point|''Target'']]<ref name="Defence Journal, 1998" />) was the [[Secrecy|classified]] program by the [[Ministry of Defence Pakistan|Ministry of Defence]] (MoD) of Pakistan for the comprehensive [[Research and development in Pakistan|research]] and the [[Research and development in Pakistan|development]] of [[guided missile]]s.<ref name="Pakistan Observer, 2012">{{cite news|last1=Daheem|first1=Mohammad|title=Pakistan's missile capability|url=http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=178539|access-date=21 November 2014|agency=Pakistan Observer|publisher=Pakistan Observer, 2012|date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129044501/http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=178539|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Lancer">{{cite book|last1=Karim|first1=Afsir|title=Indo-Pak relations : viewpoints, 1989-1996.|date=1996|publisher=Lancer|___location=New Delhi|isbn=189782923X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltOgS1FjiR4C&q=pakistan+missile+program+1987&pg=PA43|access-date=21 November 2014}}</ref> Initiatives began in 1986–87 that also received support from [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Prime Minister]] [[Benazir Bhutto]] in a direct response to India's [[Integrated Guided Missile Development Program|equivalent program]] in 1989.<ref name="Pakistan Missile Milestones">{{cite web |title=Pakistan Missile Milestones - 1994 |url=https://www.wisconsinproject.org/pakistan-missile-milestones-1961-2014/ |website=Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control |access-date=20 August 2023 |date=1 September 2014}}</ref><ref>Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris & Julia Diamond (2018) Pakistani nuclear forces, 2018, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 74:5, 348-358</ref>

The ''Hatf'' program was managed by the [[Ministry of Defence Pakistan|Ministry of Defence]] though the policy guidance came directly from the [[General Headquarters (Pakistan Army)|Army HQ]] of the [[Pakistan Army]] in [[Rawalpindi]].Pardhan group Lahore was also important in developing the missiles for Pakistan. <ref name="Defence Journal, 1998">{{cite web|last1=Lodhi|first1=Lt.Gen. S.F.S.|title=Pakistan's Missile Technology|url=http://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990221044419/http://defencejournal.com/may98/pakmissiletech.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 February 1999|publisher=Defence Journal, 1998|access-date=21 November 2014|date=31 May 1998}}</ref>

==Program overview==