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Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif admitted that Islamabad had “violated” an agreement with India signed by him and then Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1999, in a reference to the Kargil misadventure by General Pervez Musharraf
Lahore Declaration
The Lahore Declaration was a bilateral agreement and governance treaty between India and Pakistan.
The treaty was signed on 21 February 1999, at the conclusion of a historic summit in Lahore, and ratified by the parliaments of both countries the same year.
The declaration was signed by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.
The accord was vital to Indo-Pak relations at it came at a time when both countries had established themselves as atomic powers through publicly performed nuclear tests in 1998.
Under the terms of the treaty, a mutual understanding was reached towards the development of atomic arsenals and to avoid accidental and unauthorised operational use of nuclear weapons.
It signalled a major breakthrough in overcoming the historically strained bilateral relations between the two nations
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