India and Pakistan exchange traditional lists of prisoners and nuclear facilities Thursday Jan 01,2015

In keeping with a 24-year-old ritual, the Governments in New Delhi and Islamabad exchanged lists of each other’s nuclear facilities on Thursday Jan 01,2015

The exchange has been an annual feature of bilateral ties since the signing of the Agreement on Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities - sealed in 1988 and enforced on January 1, 1992 - which was devised to keep the nations from targeting each other’s nuclear infrastructure

Thursday Jan 01,2015 also saw the countries exchange a list of civilian prisoners in each other’s jails, a biannual ritual carried out in keeping with a 2008 bilateral accord known as the ‘Agreement on Consular Access between India and Pakistan’. 

The agreement calls on India and Pakistan to exchange twice every year - on January 1 and July 1- the names of each other’s civilians they hold in their jails