In 1999, India's Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's Navaz Sharif signed the Lahore Declaration on the use of nuclear weapons.
The treaty was signed on February 21, 1999, at the end of a historic summit in Lahore, and approved by both nations' parliaments the following year. Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Atal Bihari Vajpayee signed the pact during a televised news conference in both countries.
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