ISLAMABAD – On the start of the New Year Pakistan and India exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities as an annual obligation to enlighten each other, on Wednesday.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the list of Pakistan’s nuclear installations were officially handed over to a diplomat of the Indian High Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Islamabad.
Likewise, India’s Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi handed over the list of Indian nuclear facilities to a diplomat of Pakistan High Commission.
Under an agreement signed on December 31, 1988, the swap over of directories is an annual trait under Article-II of the concurrence on the Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India.
The concurrence contains the provision that both countries notify each other of their nuclear installations and facilities on January 1st every year, which has been done successively since January 1, 1992.