DHAKA: India and Pakistan have exchanged lists of their nuclear facilities as part of a 1988 pact that bars them from attacking each other’s nuclear installations.

An external affairs ministry statement says the exchange, both in New Delhi and Islamabad, is done each New Year’s Day since 1992.

The ministry also said that both countries exchanged lists of prisoners held in their jails who are citizens of the rival country. But the ministry gave no further details.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since they won independence from Britain in 1947.

They have been trying to improve relations seriously damaged by the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 that killed 166 people.

BDST: 1720 HRS, JAN 01, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor