User talk:Acsafyan1

February 2019
Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Ababeel (missile), without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:38, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

While there has been no independent 'verification' to Pakistan's claim of MIRV capability. The DIA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley in a testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on threats to national security states that "In January 2017, Pakistan conducted the first test launch of its nuclear-capable Ababeel ballistic missile, demonstrating South Asia’s first MIRV payload". Would this count as an adequate source? Correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm new to editing Wikipedia pages.

Acsafyan1 (talk) 19:15, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


 * This would be best discussed at Talk:Ababeel (missile).
 * Your edits today have been to remove sourced content, with no relation to the source you give above.
 * When you were editing as, you were adding the reference above. The trouble is that the Ashley source, whilst reasonable to use, is vague if not downright misleading. He describes, "In January 2017, Pakistan conducted the first test launch of its nuclear-capable Ababeel ballistic missile, demonstrating South Asia’s first MIRV payload".  But the January 2017 test didn't demonstrate any such thing. It was a launch, not a re-entry, certainly not a MIRV re-entry. I am unaware of any test since which has demonstrated that (if you know of one, please show it). Ashley was 'disingenuous' to say the least to make such a claim from a test which didn't show that – but then he's US military, and the US military have a long track record of over-stating other nation's capabilities, in order to justify more spending on their own. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:35, 26 February 2019 (UTC)