Ghauri-II

The Ghauri-II is a Pakistani medium-range ballistic missile of the Ghauri family, which the Khan Research Laboratories of Kahuta developed under Dr. A. Q. Khan. The family was first called Hatf-V before the prime minister approved the name Ghauri, after a twelfth-century Afghan king who conquered parts of northern India, and analysts judge that the design derives from the North Korean Nodong. Pakistan test fired the Ghauri II on 14 April 1999 from the Jhelum region, three days after India tested its Agni II missile. The vehicle reportedly struck a target in the Baluchistan desert about 1,100 km away. GlobalSecurity.org works out that, depending on the direction of fire and the effect of the earth's rotation, the distance flown would correspond to a range of between about 950 and 1,240 km. The Ghauri name is deliberately symbolic, since India's own short-range missiles carry the name Prithvi while the Ghauri reaches much further.