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Question: Account for the failure to resolve the Kashmir dispute.
Answer: From the extensive research carried out for this essay, the main reason why India and Pakistan have failed to resolve the Kashmir dispute over six decades is because of the India’s unstable political relationship with both Pakistan and Indian occupied Kashmir (IJK). With the political infrastructure of both India and Pakistan being stretched over three wars (1947, 1965 and 1990), with further constant cross border exchanges and additional threats of wars further usurping each nations economies (60% of each nations budget is spent on defence). Kashmir has therefore become an ‘expensive war to lose and an intractable dispute to resolve’ (Indurthy 2004). Pakistan’s argument in the dispute is that they should have sovereignty over Kashmir because of the Muslim majority, which is also the general consensus among the Kashmiri Muslims (95%, 1991 census) apart from those who desire in...(short extract)
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- Subject: Politics
- Course: International Relations
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 75%
- Words: 3298
- Date submitted: January 08, 2009
- Date written: October, 2005
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 20
