Islamabad: India and Pakistan are set to exchange lists of their nuclear
installations on January 1 under an agreement that prohibits the two countries from
attacking each other's nuclear facilities.
Both the countries complied with the agreement signed in 1991 and began exchanging
the lists of the nuclear installations on January 1, 1992.
Even at the height tensions between the two countries following the December 13
attack on Parliament last year, India and Pakistan exchanged the lists on January 1,
2002.
Now they are again poised to exchange the same and officials on both sides do not
see any problem in that.
The 1991 agreement prohibits both the countries from attacking against each other's
nuclear installations and facilities in times of war.
The last year's list contained 11 Indian nuclear installations against six on
Pakistani side, local daily 'The News' reported.
"The exchange of the lists of nuclear installations on the first day of the New Year
would herald a new era of conciliation and rapprochement as both India and Pakistan
have given a firm commitment to the international community to bolster the set of
confidence building measures (CBMs) leading to a structured dialogue," the paper
quoted Western diplomats in Brussels as saying.
PTI
