ISLAMABAD, May 28 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Pakistan test-fired a third ballistic missile Tuesday, May 28, amid rising tension with India and despite international condemnation of two earlier tests. India reacted to this test, saying it was “unimpressed”. 

The missile is a short-range indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile Hatf-11 (Abdali), which was tested for the first time, the statement said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.  

It is capable of carrying warheads accurately up to a range of 180 km. “The successful test fire of Abdali concludes for now the series of tests conducted over the last few days,” the statement said. 

The weapon fired Sunday, May 26, was a newly-developed short-range Hatf-III (Ghaznavi) capable of carrying warheads up to 290 km with great accuracy, an official statement said. 

On Saturday, May 25, Pakistan test-fired a nuclear-capable medium-range Hatf-V (Ghauri) capable of striking deep inside Indian territory, in the face of loud international calls for restraint. 

After the two successful firings, Joint Chiefs of Staff committee chairman, General Aziz Ahmed Khan, said Pakistan's defenses were “impregnable”. 

“The concentration of troops on borders and coercive attitude of any power could not frighten the valiant armed forces of Pakistan, whose soldiers were more keen to embrace martyrdom than saving their lives,” he said.

This third test comes as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw holds talks in Islamabad which he says are aimed at reducing the risk of war between India and Pakistan, BBC’s online news service reported.

India lashed out at Pakistan for testing the missile amid escalating tensions between the hostile neighbors, saying it was “unimpressed” by the latest salvo.

“The whole thing is being done because of domestic compulsions. We remain unimpressed,” defense ministry spokesman P. K. Bandyopadhyay told AFP.

“We are not at all impressed by these missile antics and the demonstration of imported and borrowed ability by Pakistan in this particular field,” an Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman told BBC.

The two countries have close to a million men massed on their border, backed by fighter jets, heavy artillery and missiles.

Dozens of people have been killed and injured in the past two weeks by daily firing across the frontier, and thousands of villagers have fled to safer areas. Both sides again traded artillery and mortar fire on Tuesday, officials said.