Pakistan and India Share Lists of Nuclear & Strategic Facilities With Each Other

[truthfollower]

With the turn of the year, Pakistan and India have shared the lists of their nuclear installations and strategic facilities as part of an agreement that limits the two adversaries from attacking each other’s atomic facilities during a war.

Earlier today, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the list of the country’s sensitive installations and facilities to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

At the same time, India’s Ministry of External Affairs handed over a similar list to the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi

According to a statement issued by Pakistan’s Foreign Office, Pakistan and India have been exchanging these lists on 1 January of every year since 1992.

In December 1988, the nuclear neighbors penned “Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistan and India” under which the lists are exchanged annually.

The agreement also prohibits both countries from undertaking, encouraging, or participating in, directly or indirectly, any action aimed at causing the destruction of, or damage to, any nuclear installation or facility in the other country.

Pakistan and India Share Lists of Nuclear & Strategic Facilities With Each Other

With the turn of the year, Pakistan and India have shared the lists of their nuclear installations and strategic facilities

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[El Sidd]

Traitors.

 

[Clutch]

I don't trust the extremist fundamentalist Hindu nation of India. They will use Pakistan's list to purposely attack those facilities. They are butchering our children in schools through their terror proxies!

Worst decision ever!

 

[El Sidd]

I don't trust the extremist fundamentalist Hindu nation of India. They will use Pakistan's list to purposely attack those facilities. They are butchering our children in schools through their terror proxies!

Worst decision ever!

ISPR said all bilateral agreements are null and void after Aug 05, 2019.

Looks like PTI government has surrendered to Modi

 

[Flash_Ninja]

I don't trust the extremist fundamentalist Hindu nation of India. They will use Pakistan's list to purposely attack those facilities. They are butchering our children in schools through their terror proxies!

Worst decision ever!

This has been standard procedure for decades, but imo there has to be facilities deep underground or hidden elsewhere which will never be on these lists for those reasons.

 

[truthfollower]

whats the reason behind not attacking nuclear and strategic installations during war?
@PanzerKiel

 

[Mirzali Khan]

This has been standard procedure for decades, but imo there has to be facilities deep underground or hidden elsewhere which will never be on these lists for those reasons.

Yea 100%

 

[sady]

I think as first strike will most likely be from India and rather than Pakistan on nuclear sites, I am sure this is just a formality.

 

[Figaro]

Very dumb plan. India can just hide its nuclear facilities in other areas of the country out of range of Pakistani attacks or unbeknownst to them. Meanwhile, all Pakistani installations can be hit as soon as possible by India due to the geographical disadvantage. Hopefully in the event of war, this does not become a fatal decision.

 

[PanzerKiel]

whats the reason behind not attacking nuclear and strategic installations during war?
@PanzerKiel

The Non-nuclear aggression agreement is a bilateral and nuclear weapons control treaty between the two South Asian states, India and Pakistan, on the reduction (or limitation) of nuclear arms and pledged not to attack or assist foreign powers to attack on each's nuclear installations and facilities.

The treaty was drafted in 1988, and signed by the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her Indian counterpart, Rajiv Gandhi on 21 December 1988; it entered into force on January 1991.

The treaty barred its signatories to carry out a surprise attack (or to assist foreign power to attack) on each other's nuclear installations and facilities. The treaty provides a confidence-building security measure environment and refrained each party from "undertaking, encouraging, or participating in,directly or indirectly, any action aimed at causing destruction or damage to any nuclear installation or facility in each country".

Starting in January 1992, India and Pakistan have annually exchanged lists of their respective military and civilian nuclear-related facilities.

Both countries realise that the potential fallout of attacking a nuclear installation can be dangerous for the population of the whole region.

 

[Darth Vader]

Majority on the list are easily searchable on Google , so dont understand peoples complaints and majority of these are for civilian purposes.

 

[Figaro]

The Non-nuclear aggression agreement is a bilateral and nuclear weapons control treaty between the two South Asian states, India and Pakistan, on the reduction (or limitation) of nuclear arms and pledged not to attack or assist foreign powers to attack on each's nuclear installations and facilities.

The treaty was drafted in 1988, and signed by the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her Indian counterpart, Rajiv Gandhi on 21 December 1988; it entered into force on January 1991.

The treaty barred its signatories to carry out a surprise attack (or to assist foreign power to attack) on each other's nuclear installations and facilities. The treaty provides a confidence-building security measure environment and refrained each party from "undertaking, encouraging, or participating in,directly or indirectly, any action aimed at causing destruction or damage to any nuclear installation or facility in each country".

Starting in January 1992, India and Pakistan have annually exchanged lists of their respective military and civilian nuclear-related facilities.

Both countries realise that the potential fallout of attacking a nuclear installation can be dangerous for the population of the whole region.

But theoretically speaking, India would be in a much more advantageous position than Pakistan because it can easily disguise its nuclear facilities due to the sheer size of India. Meanwhile Pakistan cannot and giving India the full list of its facilities seems quite imprudent.

 

[PanzerKiel]

But theoretically speaking, India would be in a much more advantageous position than Pakistan because it can easily disguise its nuclear facilities due to the sheer size of India. Meanwhile Pakistan cannot and giving India the full list of its facilities seems quite imprudent.

Nuclear facilties are big and static.... They cannot be constructed under a roof... So right from the moment once they are made, they are registered.... And then they cannot be hidden as well....

But my point is.... The list of Nuclear facilties being talked about only includes these big ones like KANUPP, CHASHNUPP etc..... They doesn't include either country's nuclear LAUNCH SITES like static or mobile silos.....

So actually exchanging the lists is a good will and confidence building measure... Another act of diplomacy..... Nothing else.

 

[El Sidd]

So actually exchanging the lists is a good will and confidence building measure... Another act of diplomacy..... Nothing else

No amount of peace offered to the Nazis will appease them.

Government has betrayed the trust of the people.

 

[PanzerKiel]

When the non-attack agreement was originally negotiated, both countries’ nuclear weapons enterprises were relatively small and secretive, and fears of a surprise attack on nuclear facilities had been rampant for several years.

The agreement in theory helped allay concerns that nuclear facilities could be attacked purposefully, either by surprise or during a conflict, thus mitigating the potential humanitarian or environmental consequences that might result.

Over time, this exercise has proven to be merely symbolic, and its potential as a building block for enhanced confidence has remained limited.

It was never backed by verification provisions, for example.

During the period prior to 1998, in which neither state had openly declared its nuclear weapon status, it was widely assumed that both sides omitted nuclear-weapons-related facilities from their respective declaration.

It is almost certainly the case today that neither side declares sites associated with nuclear weapons storage and operations, and perhaps other facilities as well.