Second Short Quiz

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Second Short Quiz

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Date: Sat, December 28, 2013
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Dear Friends,

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SECOND REALLY-SHORT QUIZ

Ordinarily, we have a Second Short Quiz ONLY during the once-per-quarter five-week gap between meetings.

However, because (1) our author believes Pakistan is fixated on ending India’s rule over Kashmir which is Muslim, to the exclusion of everything else during Pakistan’s 67 years of existence including economic development, (2) of the fact that Pakistan and India have already fought THREE wars over Kashmir, and (3) of the fact that Pakistan and India BOTH DEVELOPED/DEPLOYED NUKES IN 1998 IN PREPARATION FOR ROUND 4 -- let’s consider:

1. How did Kashmir, which is Muslim, come to be ruled by India in the split-off of all the other majority-Muslim areas of India into newly-created Pakistan when Britain gave India independence in 1947?

2. Why has Pakistan fought India 3 times already over Kashmir and why have both Pakistan and India “nuked up” relatively recently over Kashmir, when virtually no shots were fired when East Pakistan seceded from West Pakistan in 1971 to become Bangladesh?

3. According to http://www.cia.gov, “Kashmir remains the site of the world’s largest and most militarized territorial dispute” -- What is the ratio of Indian troops to Kashmiris? What is the population of Kashmir and how many Kashmiris are refugees including IDP’s (Internally-Displaced Persons in U.N. parlance)?

4. Is Yours Truly correct in the “think piece” attached to Answer-23 of the First Short Quiz that “even though Prof. Haqqani is probably right that we shouldn’t think of Pakistan as an “ally” (which may be merely a nomenclature problem), we should continue to try to engage Pakistan vis-à-vis anti-terrorism and anti-nuclear-proliferation with, to put it crassly, bribes (aka “foreign aid”) comprising conventional weapons.”


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SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO THE SHORT QUIZ

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We hope to see all of you Wednesday evening January 8th.

Your friend,

John K.

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