BBC NEWS -- US criticises India missile tests

Agni-1 is an intermediate range ballistic missile which can be fired from mobile launchers and can strike any target in Pakistan.

"The test is one more step in enhancing India's overall weapons-of-mass-destruction capability," defence analyst Uday Bhaskar told Reuters.

The latest Indian test comes a day after Pakistan said a new intermediate-range missile system capable of carrying nuclear warheads had been handed over to the army's recently created strategic force command.

That came after India announced it had set up a formal command structure to manage its nuclear weapons.

BBC has had four articles on escalting nuclear saber rattling by India and Pakistan in the first 10 days of this year.