India, Pak exchange lists of nuclear facilities

New Delhi, Jan 1 (UNI) India and Pakistan today exchanged lists of nuclear installations and facilities under an agreement for prevention of attacks against each other's nuclear facilities.

The lists are exchanged through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad on January one each year under the 'Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities' signed on December 31, 1988.

Under the Agreement, which entered into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries are to inform each other of Nuclear Installations and Facilities.

The first such exchange of lists took place on January one, 1992.

This is the seventeenth consecutive time that both countries have exchanged such a list.

UNI RB MIR AS1406