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The [[Hatf-I]] ([[English language|English tr.]]: "Death, DestructionTarget") was the first project that was developed under this program in 1987, and the system is deployed under the [[Pakistan Army]].<ref name="Pakistan Defence Consortium">{{cite web|title=Timelime of Missiles|url=http://www.pakistanidefence.com/Nuclear&Missiles/Missile_Program_Chronology.html|publisher=Pakistan Defence Consortium|access-date=22 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924063558/http://www.pakistanidefence.com/Nuclear%26Missiles/Missile_Program_Chronology.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''Hatf-I'' is a [[Battlefield range ballistic missile|battlefield range]] system developed by the [[SUPARCO|Space Research Commission]], together with the [[Khan Research Laboratories]] (KRL), oversaw the development of the first system that was seen as direct competition with Indian [[Prithvi (missile)|''Prithvi'']] system.<ref name="Pakistan Defence Consortium"/>

Despite claims of success by Pakistani administration, the Pakistani military admissions indicated that inaccuracy of the missile system that led to the shelving of the program until 2000 when it entered finally in the military service.{{rp|235-245}}<ref name="Stanford University Press, Khan, 2012" /> The Western assessments believed this system to influence directly from American and French space rockets that Space Research Commission studied as part of its original civilian space program.<ref>"Pakistan derives its first 'Hatf' missiles from foreign space rockets," The Risk Report, October 1995, p. 5</ref><ref name="Missiles of the World">{{cite web|url=http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.47/missile_detail.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008193609/http://www.missilethreat.com/missilesoftheworld/id.47/missile_detail.asp |archive-date=2007-10-08 |url-status=dead |title=MissileThreat :: Hatf 1 :: Missiles of the World |access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref> Lessons and experiences learn from the Hatf-I eventually led to the designs and development of the [[Nasr (missile)|''Nasr'']] in 2011, which is widely believed to be a delivery system for small [[tactical nuclear weapon|tactical]] [[nuclear weapon]]s.<ref name="Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control" /> The [[Battlefield range ballistic missile|battlefield range]] system is exclusively designed and deployed under the services of the Pakistan Army.<ref name="BBC, Pakistan Bureau" />