Pakistan successfully test-fires submarine-based cruise missile Babur

Pakistan successfully test-fired indigenously developed Babur submarine-launched Cruise Missile(SLCM), Pakistan's Inter-Services Major General Asif Ghafoor declared.

Babur is capable of "delivering all kinds of payloads", Ghafoor informed on Twitter.

SLCM Babur provides Pakistan "credible second strike capability", augmenting the existing deterrence regime, Ghafoor informed.

"Development of this capability also reflects Pakistan's response to provocative nuclear strategies and posture being pursued in the neighbourhood through induction of nuclear submarines and ship-borne nuclear missiles," the ISPR said.

The test launched was witnessed by director general Strategic Plans Division(SPD), Chairman National Engineered and Scientific Commission(NESCOM) and Commander Naval Strategic Force Command(NFSC)

The missile was successfully fired from an underwater dynamic platform engaging its "target precisely".