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(From Agence France Presse)
Nuclear-armed arch-rivals India and Pakistan ushered in the new year by exchanging lists of their nuclear facilities, Islamabad said.
Pakistan's foreign ministry announced the exchange, which is mandated every New Year's Day as part of the bilateral agreement on prohibition of attacks against each other's nuclear installations.
"Information on nuclear installations and facilities of both sides was exchanged today through diplomatic channels," the statement said.
Pakistan and India, which conducted tit-for-tat nuclear weapons tests in 1998, went to the brink of war in May last year, in the midst of a 10-month deployment of a million troops on their common border that followed a deadly December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament.
New Delhi ...