India is afraid of Pakistan’s experiments in missile technology.

The recent launches of Pakistan Hatf-IV and Hatf-VI come days after India announced that it had test-fired a nuclear-capable cruise missile from Balasore in Odisha state. The missile, with the name of Nirbhay, has a range of over 700 kilometres.

Again on November 9, India had announced that it had successfully test-launched long-range nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile, Agni-II.

India's Agni-II ballistic missile

The test-launches of the nuclear-capable missiles come at a time when both India and Pakistan are engaged in fights along the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary and also as India has conveyed to China that it could no longer be issued warnings by anyone saying the South Asian nation was now immensely powerful and held a prominent position on the international stage.