India, Pakistan alternate listing of nuclear installations

Image Source : FILE PHOTO/PTI The pact mandates the 2 international locations to tell one another of the nuclear installations and services to be lined underneath the settlement on the primary of January of each calendar yr.
Continuing a 30-year apply, India and Pakistan on Friday exchanged an inventory of their nuclear installations underneath a bilateral association that prohibits the 2 international locations from attacking one another’s atomic services.
The two international locations exchanged the listing of nuclear installations and services lined underneath the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack towards Nuclear Installations and Facilities between India and Pakistan, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated.
This was carried out concurrently by diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad.
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“India and Pakistan today 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,” the MEA stated in a press release.
The alternate of the listing got here amid frosty ties between the 2 international locations over the Kashmir situation in addition to cross-border terrorism.
The settlement was signed on December 31, 1988 and it got here into power on January 27, 1991.
The pact mandates the 2 international locations to tell one another of the nuclear installations and services to be lined underneath the settlement on the primary of January of each calendar yr.
This is the thirtieth consecutive alternate of the listing with the primary one going down on January 1, 1992.
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