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India, Pak exchange nuke installation lists

India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities covered under an agreement of 1998.

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NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities covered under an agreement of 1998.
 
The lists were exchanged simultaneously here and in Islamabad through diplomatic channels as per the practice of 16 years, the External Affairs Ministry said.
 
The lists included places covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the two countries signed on December 31, 1988.
 
As per the agreement, which came into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries exchange the lists on January 1 to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the pact.
 
In Islamabad, a senior Indian diplomat said, "We have received the list (of nuclear installations) from the Pakistan Foreign Office."
 
The two countries exchanged the first such lists in 1992 and have stuck to the practice since then.
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