Continuing an over three-decade practice, India and Pakistan on Thursday (January 1, 2026) exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral pact that prohibits the two sides from attacking each other's atomic facilities. The two countries also exchanged a list of prisoners under the consular access agreement signed on May 21, 2008. “Pakistan and India exchanged the lists of their respective nuclear installations pursuant to the agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India signed on 31st December 1988,” Foreign Office spokesman Tahir Andrabi said at the weekly press briefing. He said that the list of nuclear installations and facilities was handed over to the representative of the Indian High Commission in the Foreign Office. The agreement on nuclear installations was signed on December 31, 1988, and came into force on January 27 1991.

Source: The Hindu January 01, 2026 16:06 UTC