Foreign Office spokesman, Masood Khan has said that Shaheen-II test would have no adverse impact on the ongoing composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan.
Talking to BBC he said, "I don't think that the missile test would have any adverse impact on the composite dialogue process that we started some time ago."
Responding to a question, the spokesman said, the missiles test fire was primarily driven by our technical requirement, adding this is the first time that Pakistan has tested a long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile.
He added that Pakistan has carried out the missile test to validate technical parameters of the missile.
He recalled that last month President General Pervez Musharraf had announced about test fire of the missile.
He said, the National Command Authority, the apex body that oversees the programme, had also announced on January 31 that Pakistan would continue with qualitative, and if necessary, quantitative upgradation of our nuclear capability.
He said, Pakistan wants peace and security in the South Asian region, adding it has been partly assured by the strategic parity between Pakistan and India.
"We must also have strategic and conventional balance between the two countries," he further said.
He said, Pakistan wants to resolve conflicts between the two countries for lasting peace and stability in the region.
He said Pakistan and India are nuclear weapons states, they must also elaborate and implement a strategic restraint regime and other nuclear risk reduction measures.
Masood Khan said, last month as part of composite dialogue, Pakistan and India have agreed to hold expert level talks on nuclear confidence building measures in May this year.