- 30 years since the practice began in 1991
New Delhi. 03 January 2021. India and Pakistan exchanged, through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between India and Pakistan. It is the 30th consecutive year when the two neighbours have exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral agreement that prohibits them from attacking each other’s atomic facilities.
The Agreement, which was signed on 31 December 1988 and entered into force on 27 January 1991 provides, inter alia, that India and Pakistan inform each other of the nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the Agreement on the first of January of every calendar year.
This is the 30th consecutive exchange of such list between the two countries, the first one having taken place on January 01, 1992.It is a bilateral and nuclear weapons control treaty between India and Pakistan, on the reduction (or limitation) of nuclear arms and pledged not to attack or assist foreign powers to attack on each other’s nuclear installations and facilities.
