New Delhi: For the seventeenth consecutive year India and Pakistan will on Tuesday exchange lists of their nuclear installations and facilities, a key confidence building measure between the two countries.

The lists will be exchanged simultaneously here and in Islamabad through diplomatic channels under an agreement the two countries initialled in 1988.

The lists included places covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the two countries signed by the then Foreign Secretary K P S Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Humayun Khan.

As per the agreement, which entered into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries exchange the lists on January one every year to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the pact.

"It is a good confidence building measure which has been holding for the last 17 years," Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner Afrasiab said. 

Source : PTI