India and Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations on New Year, this tradition has been going on since 1992

India-Pakistan Agreement: Maintaining the pattern that has been going on for greater than three many years, India and Pakistan exchanged the list of their nuclear installations beneath a bilateral settlement on Wednesday (January 01, 2025). This data was given by the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Foreign Ministry stated the list was exchanged beneath the provisions of an settlement stopping assaults on nuclear installations. The list was exchanged concurrently by diplomatic channels between New Delhi and Islamabad. “India and Pakistan today exchanged the list of nuclear installations simultaneously through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad,” the ministry stated.

The settlement was signed in 1988

The exchange of this list comes amid the impasse in relations between the 2 international locations over the Kashmir challenge in addition to cross-border terrorism. The settlement was signed on December 31, 1988 and got here into drive on January 27, 1991. Under the settlement, there’s a provision for each the international locations to tell one another about their nuclear installations on the primary January of yearly.

“This is the 34th consecutive exchange of such lists between the two countries,” the Ministry of External Affairs stated in a press release. The first exchange of this list happened on January 1, 1992.