Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 1      

India on Monday exchanged its list of nuclear installations with Pakistan under a non-aggression treaty signed by the two neighbour that prevents them from carrying out surprise attacks on the other’s nuclear facilities.

In a press statement on Monday, the Ministry of External Affairs said that this was the 27th such exchange between the neighbours since the treaty — called Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations — was signed between then Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto on December 31, 1988.

The list is usually exchanged on January 1. The agreement came into force on January 27, 1991.

The first such exchange took place on January 1, 1992.