India and Pakistan on Monday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities covered under an agreement of 1998.

The lists were exchanged simultaneously in New Delhi and in Islamabad through diplomatic channels as per the practice of the last 16 years, the Ministry of External Affairs said.

The lists included places covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the two countries signed on December 31, 1988.

As per the agreement, which entered into force on January 27, 1991, the two countries exchange the lists on January 1 every year to inform each other of nuclear installations and facilities to be covered under the pact.