Kashmir Dispute | MCQs

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During the partition of Punjab in 1947, India was granted a land link road to Kashmir via Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, between the rivers Beas and Ravi.

headquarters of Gurdaspur District

Gurdaspur is in the geographical center of the district, which shares a border with Pakistan.

Gurdaspur City was named after Mahant Guriya das ji. 

NA23-7-2023

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Article 35A was abrogated by the Modi Government on 5th August 2019 to indulge in demographic engineering.

On 5 August 2019, the Parliament of India voted in favour of a resolution tabled by Home Minister Amit Shah to revoke the temporary special status, or autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir

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The Line of Control (LoC) was established in 1949 after the Karachi Agreement, following the first Indo-Pak war over Kashmir.

It was originally called the Ceasefire Line and renamed the LoC in the 1972 Simla Agreement.

The LoC is approximately 740 km long.

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 Nivedita Menon, an Indian academic and political activist,

She has been vocal about the issue of Kashmir and has argued that India is illegally occupying Kashmir.

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Kashmir is the most contentious issue between India and Pakistan.

India revoked the special status of Kashmir on 5 August 2019

The Three major wars India and Pakistan fought over Kashmir.

1.       1947

2.       1965,

3.       A limited war in 1999.

while 

Another area of major conflict between India and Pakistan has been over the sharing of river waters

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Liaquat Ali Khan, also referred to in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Millat or Shaheed-e-Millat, was a Pakistani statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and one of the leading Pakistan Movement activists.

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Kashmir is a disputed region in the Indian subcontinent, and its territory is currently administered by three countries:

1. Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan)
2. India (Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh)
3. China (Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract)

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According to the United Nations, the LOC came into effect in July 1972, after India and Pakistan fought a war that began in 1971. They signed the Simla Agreement to define what was previously called the “ceasefire line.”

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered to act as a mediator between India and Pakistan

to defuse escalating tensions over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

The offer came on September 30 after Pakistan's UN ambassador met with Ban 

UN international organization helped to establish a cease-fire line between India and Pakistan in Kashmir

ND4-5-2023

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