India - Pak N-facilities

• On January 1, 2011  following a two-decade old practice, India and Pakistan exchanged lists of their respective nuclear facilities
• The exchange was done under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations, which was signed on December 31, 1988.
• The agreement came into force from January 27, 1991, and since then the two countries have been exchanging the lists of their nuclear installations on the first day of every calendar year.
• The lists are exchanged by the two sides through diplomatic channels in New Delhi and Islamabad.
• While India handed over its list to a Pakistani High Commission official posted in New Delhi, Pakistan gave its list to an Indian official in Islamabad simultaneously.

• Both countries are de-facto nuclear-weapon powers. India conducted its first nuclear test in 1974, followed by five more in May 1998. Pakistan conducted six tit-for-tat nuclear tests in 1998.
• The two countries have refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
• While India contends that it is discriminatory in nature, Pakistan says it won’t join the treaty until India accedes to it.