Pakistan test-fired an "indigenously developed" medium-range ballistic missile on Tuesday, concluding a series of such tests that began earlier this month, the military said.

"Pakistan today carried out another successful test fire of its indigenously developed medium-range surface-to-surface ballistic Hatf-IV/Shaheen-1," a statement from the military's public relations department said.

It was the second test of Shaheen-1 in less than a week.

Islamabad, wary of superiority of its rival India in conventional weapons, carried out the first test of nuclear-capable Shaheen-1 on Wednesday. The missile has a range of up to 700 km (435 miles) and can carry all "kinds of warheads," the military has said.

Earlier this month, Pakistan tested a short-range Hatf-III Ghaznavi missile that New Delhi dismissed as nothing special.

The military said the second test of Shaheen-1 concluded the latest series of missile tests.

"Longer range version of the Hatf series will be tested in future as soon as technical parameters need to be validated."

Pakistan and India engaged in what were seen as a tit-for-tat missile tests last March, when Islamabad tested the short-range Abdali (Hatf-II) missile.

India test-fired the nuclear-capable Prithvi missile in April and then a short-range, surface-to-surface missile in June.

Tensions between the two-nuclear armed neighbours have eased somewhat this year after they came close to a fourth war in 2002 over an insurgency in divided Kashmir. But there has been little progress towards peace talks partly because of renewed violence in the disputed region.

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