Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Amid their strained ties and after Operation Sindoor in May 2025, India and Pakistan on Thursday exchanged a list of their respective nuclear installations and facilities, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
The list exchange took place under the provisions of a 1988 bilateral agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities.
Continuing an over three-decade-long practice, the two distant neighbors took the step even as their ties remain under deep freeze following their military hostilities from May 7 to 10, 2025.
It was done simultaneously through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad.
“India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels, simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the list of nuclear installations and facilities, covered under the agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations and facilities between India and Pakistan,” the MEA said.
The bilateral agreement was signed on December 31, 1988, and came into force on January 27 1991.
The pact mandates the two countries to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the agreement on the first day of January of every calendar year.
“This is the 35th consecutive exchange of such lists between the two countries, the first one having taken place on 1 January 1992,” the MEA said in a brief statement.
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