The Integrated Missile Research and Development Programme[1] was a Government of Pakistan's Ministry of Defence program to developed the supersonic and ballistic medium and intermediate range missile system Hatf-I (Battlefield Range Ballistic Missile), and short range missiles such as the Shaheen-I, Abdali-I, Ghaznavi Missile System.
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For other uses, see Ghauri. |
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See also: Khan Research Laboratories |
The Ghauri Strategic Ballistic Missile System are the series of ballistic and supersonic missile systems developed by Pakistan from 1987 till 2005. The program was launched in 1987 by the Pakistan Army as Pakistani scientists urged the Military Government of General Zia-Ul-Haq, who was also serving as Chief of Army Staff of Army, to start the comprehensive missile technology program. The program was led by the dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL), along side with the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The Ghauri Missile System are part of Pakistan's Integrated Missile Research and Development Programme. The KRL had successfully developed Ghauri Strategic Ballistic Missile System that are listed below:
The Shaheen Strategic Missile Guidance System are developed by the National Development Complex. The National Development Complex (NDC) was a brainchild and founded by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan in 1990. A renowned nuclear physicist dr. Samar Mubarakmand was appointed its first chairman. Then-Prime minister Nawaz Sharif laid the administrative foundation of the institution in 1993.
The program was launched in 1995 by the Prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto as she had strongly advocated for the program.