{"id":16880,"date":"2025-08-23T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=16880"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:56:18","slug":"indias-agni-5-missile-reclassificat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2025\/08\/23\/indias-agni-5-missile-reclassificat\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Agni 5 missile reclassification escalates regional, global security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>India\u2019s Agni 5 missile reclassification escalates regional, global security risks<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Islamabad: India\u2019s recent reclassification of its Agni 5 missile from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) represents a strategic maneuver with significant implications for regional and global security.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, India has quietly reclassified its Agni-V missile from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) which isn\u2019t just a technical tweak but carries major strategic &amp; diplomatic signals.<\/p>\n<p>By downgrading the Agni 5\u2019s status from an ICBM to an IRBM, India effectively exploits the ambiguity in international missile classifications. Officially, India claims the missile has a range of about 5,500 km on paper, yet many Indian media outlets including Telegraph India and Swarajya has claimed this range to 8,000 km.<\/p>\n<p>This discrepancy appears to be a deliberate tactic to mislead both regional adversaries and the international community, projecting a more formidable strategic capability while avoiding heightened global alarm. This dual messaging tactic helps India dodge intense scrutiny from Western capitals and multilateral security forums that might otherwise consider it a global nuclear threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Agni 5 missile reclassification escalates regional, global security risks Islamabad: India\u2019s recent reclassification of its Agni 5 missile from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) represents a strategic maneuver with significant implications for regional and global security. According to Kashmir Media Service, India has quietly reclassified its Agni-V [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298,2299],"tags":[3543,2391],"class_list":["post-16880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-world","tag-india-agni-missile","tag-pakistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16883,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16880\/revisions\/16883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}