(Online Course) Contemporary Issues for IAS Mains 2012: India and The World - Indo-Pak Relations

India & The World

::Indo-Pak Relations::

Question : What is track 2 diplomacy?

Answer :

Civil Society activists, academics, politicians, corporate business representatives and persons well versed in the conduct of international relations play a increasingly important role in influencing and molding the foreign and security policies of nations.

Question : What pug wash report recommended for J&K?

Answer :

  • Give a human dimension to Kashmir problems.
  • Political dialogue at all levels.
  • Genuine social and economic reforms
  • Stressed the need for intra-kashmir dialogue.
  • A process of reconciliation within both sides of Jammu & Kashmir and across the line of control.

Question : What are the possible solution for normalizing relations across Loc?

Answer :

  • Bus services to link different part of the state.
  • Developing and opening multiple and routes.
  • Border markets and meeting points across Loc
  • Trade in goods & services across Loc.
  • A solution to Kashmir water problems.

Question : The dialogue process welcomes the following?

Answer :

  • Reduction of security forces in J&K
  • Continuation of the process of normalization
  • Necessary basic political freedoms
  • Maintaining a cease fire within a state.

Question : What are the conclusion arrived between Musharraf & Manmohan Singh?

Answer :

  • Self-governance to J&K
  • Demilitarization
  • Joint management of the state
  • Irrevocable end to terrorism
  • Ultimate solution to make Loc irrelevant

Question : What is the stand of Pak military?

Answer:

  • Forcing civil an government to adopt a hard line
  • A recalcitrant posture towards India
  • Keeping options open for terrorist strikes on Indian soil.
  • Curbing the Indian interest in Afghanistan

Question : What is the situation in Baltistan?

Answer :

  • Suffers from extreme poverty and neglect
  • Enormous deficiency in basic literacy
  • Acess to healthcare are inadequate
  • Lack of democratic structure
  • Major deficiencies in the rule of law and justice.

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