Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities
Context: India, Pakistan exchange list of nuclear installations
Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities
- The agreement contains the provision that both countries inform each other of their nuclear installations and facilities on January 1 every year.
- Pakistan and India conducted the annual practice of exchanging the list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits them from attacking each other's atomic facilities.
- The exchange was made in accordance with Article-II of the Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India, signed on December 31, 1988.
- This has been done consecutively since January 1, 1992.
- The exchange of information comes despite the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan.
- The relationship dipped after India's war planes pounded a terrorist training camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror attack carried out by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed.
- Tensions between the two nations spiked further after New Delhi abrogated provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution to withdraw Jammu and Kashmir's special status and bifurcated it into two Union Territories.
- Asserting that the abrogation of Article 370 was its "internal matter", India has defended the imposition of restrictions in the Kashmir Valley on the grounds that they were put to prevent Pakistan from creating more mischief through proxies and terrorists.
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