India, Pak exchange lists of nuclear installations

Islamabad, Jan 1 (PTI) India and Pakistan Thursday
exchanged lists of their nuclear installations under an
agreement aimed at preventing attacks on each other's atomic
facilities inspite of prevailing tension in the aftermath of
the Mumbai terror attacks.

The Foreign Office handed over a list of Pakistan's
nuclear installations and facilities to an official of the
Indian High Commission at 11 a.m here.

In New Delhi, the Indian side handed over its list to
an official of the Pakistan High Commission at the External
Affairs Ministry.

The two sides also exchanged fresh lists of prisoners
being held in each other's jails, officials told PTI.

The exchange of lists of atomic facilities is done on
January 1 every year under the "Agreement between India and
Pakistan on Prohibition of Attack Against Nuclear
Installations and Facilities", which was signed in 1988 and
ratified in 1991.

Officials from both sides had earlier said that the
tension sparked by the Mumbai terror attacks would not affect
the exchange of the nuclear lists, which is done as routine
every year.

According to the agreement signed on December 31,
1988, Pakistan and India have to inform each other on January
1 every year about the nuclear installations and facilities to
be covered by the pact.

Islamabad and New Delhi had exchanged lists of
prisoners being held in each other's jail but both sides had
subsequently expressed reservations about these lists. During
talks here between home secretaries of the two countries in
November, they agreed to exchange fresh lists of prisoners.

Further details about the number of prisoners being
held in the two countries were not immediately available. PTI
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