Through the Sands of Time: The Enduring Legacy of the India-Pakistan Non-Attack Agreement

This paper is an evaluation of the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, informally called the Non-Attack Agreement. The authors consider bilateral drivers of confidence building, specifically as they relate to the Non-Attack Agreement, and its potentially symbiotic relationship with the prevailing international legal and geopolitical environment. In its final section, the paper assesses how this confidence-building measure has held up in the 33 years since it entered into force.