NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations under an agreement that aims to prevent both sides from attacking such facilities.
The exchange was done through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the Times of India quoted the ministry of externals affairs (MEA) having said in a statement.
This is the twenty-seventh consecutive exchange of such a list between the two countries, the MEA added.
The Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear installations between India and Pakistan that governs the exchange of these lists was signed on December 31, 1988 and came into force on January 27, 1991.
It ensures that both countries inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities that are to be covered under the agreement on the first of January every year.
The list-exchange comes in the backdrop of a heated back-and-forth between the two countries over the harassment and ill-treatment of jailed Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav’s mother and wife by Pakistan.
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