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Kashmir Dispute Worksheet

Use the Kashmir Case Study on your Chromebook to answer the following questions:

1. Where is Kashmir located?

2. Why is that location important?

3. What countries have fought three wars over control of Kashmir?

4. Why are world leaders concerned about the dispute?

5. What might happen if the dispute were resolved?

Use the Primary Resources to answer the following:

A. Why does the Pakistan government believe that it has done all it can to settle the dispute?
Quote one action of Pakistan that the Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, cites in his policy
statement,

B. Give an example of how protests and shut downs affect the poor.

C. What are two problems that the continuing wars have caused for the citizens of Kashmir?

What must Kashmir become in order to solve the dispute?

D, What has happened in Kashmir because of the wars, according to Mohammed Aziz?
E. How has the spending on nuclear weapons hurt the poor people of both India and Pakistan?
How does the cartoonist show this problem?