Practice Kashmir MCQs for PPSC Welfare Officer (BS-16) Current Affairs — topic-wise sets with solved answers.
Q1. In which year did Pakistan and India renew the Line of Control ceasefire agreement that had been violated repeatedly?
Answer: 2021
Explanation: Pakistan and India renewed the LoC ceasefire in February 2021 through a joint statement by their Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs). This restored relative calm on the Kashmir frontier after years of frequent violations.
Q2. Since which year has India-Pakistan formal trade remained suspended, following India's revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status?
Answer: 2019
Explanation: India revoked Article 370 in August 2019, after which Pakistan suspended formal bilateral trade with India. The trade suspension has remained in place through 2025, leaving cross-border commerce at a standstill.
Q3. India revoked the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir under which article of the Indian Constitution in August 2019?
Answer: Article 370
Explanation: India revoked Article 370 of its Constitution in August 2019, ending Jammu and Kashmir's special autonomous status. Pakistan condemned the move, downgraded diplomatic ties, and suspended bilateral trade, which remains halted.
Q4. What major diplomatic event caused a downgrade in Pakistan-India relations in 2019?
Answer: India's revocation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir
Explanation: India revoked Article 370 of its constitution in August 2019, revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, which Pakistan strongly opposed. This led Pakistan to downgrade diplomatic ties, expel the Indian High Commissioner, and suspend bilateral trade.
Q5. Pakistan and India last had full High Commissioner-level diplomatic relations before which year?
Answer: 2019
Explanation: Pakistan downgraded diplomatic relations with India in 2019 following India's revocation of Article 370 in Kashmir. Since then, both countries have not exchanged full High Commissioners, operating at reduced diplomatic levels.
Q6. A think tank briefing says Delhi hosted a G20 tourism meeting in a disputed Himalayan region in 2023 and Islamabad protested it as a move that could affect regional stability. Which host city best matches that controversy?
Answer: Srinagar
Explanation: India held a G20 Tourism Working Group meeting in Srinagar, the main city of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, in May 2023, drawing protests from Pakistan and China over hosting an event in disputed territory.
Q7. India’s 2019 constitutional changes ending special status for Jammu and Kashmir still shape Pakistan’s diplomatic framing in 2021-2025. What did India do to Article 370 in that move?
Answer: It converted Jammu and Kashmir into union territories and ended J&K’s special autonomy
Explanation: In August 2019, India revoked Article 370 of its Constitution that granted special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, bifurcated the state into two Union Territories (J&K and Ladakh), drawing strong protests from Pakistan.
Q8. Pakistan repeatedly raises Kashmir in OIC fora as a dispute needing peaceful settlement per UN resolutions. In basic UN framing taught in Pakistan studies, Kashmir is most commonly categorized as what kind of issue?
Answer: An international dispute with UN Security Council history
Explanation: Kashmir is categorised as an international dispute with a UN Security Council history, with multiple UNSC resolutions from 1948-1957 calling for a plebiscite to determine the final status of the territory.
Q9. Pakistan criticizes India’s heavy militarization in Kashmir while India cites counterterror needs. For a “apply concepts” item, what term describes the military separation zone that still dominates India-Pakistan Kashmir headlines?
Answer: Line of Control
Explanation: The Line of Control (LoC) is the de facto military border dividing the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir between Indian-administered and Pakistani-administered territories, and remains the central flashpoint in India-Pakistan relations.
Q10. When did the Pahalgam terror attack occur that triggered a major India-Pakistan diplomatic crisis?
Answer: April 22, 2025
Explanation: The Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 Indian tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir, occurred on April 22, 2025, triggering India's Operation Sindoor and a severe diplomatic crisis with Pakistan.
Q11. In which year was Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, granting special status to Jammu and Kashmir, revoked by India?
Answer: 2019
Explanation: India's Parliament passed legislation revoking Article 370 on 5 August 2019, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of its special autonomous status and bifurcating it into two centrally administered Union Territories.
Q12. Which aspect of India's revocation of Article 370 in August 2019 was most legally significant in the context of India-Pakistan relations?
Answer: It bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, removing its special autonomous status and state legislature
Explanation: The revocation of Article 370 was accompanied by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, which bifurcated the state into two Union Territories - Jammu and Kashmir (with a legislature) and Ladakh (without one) - eliminating its special autonomous status and full state legislature.
Q13. What is the Line of Control (LoC) in the context of India-Pakistan relations?
Answer: The de facto military boundary dividing Indian-administered and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, established from the 1972 Simla Agreement
Explanation: The Line of Control emerged from the 1971 war ceasefire line that was formalized as a de facto boundary under the 1972 Simla Agreement, dividing Kashmir into Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Q14. Cross-border firing violations along the LoC dramatically increased between 2016 and 2020 before the 2021 ceasefire. What was Pakistan's consistent position regarding these violations?
Answer: Pakistan maintained that India was responsible for unprovoked ceasefire violations targeting civilian populations
Explanation: Pakistan consistently maintained that India was responsible for initiating unprovoked ceasefire violations targeting civilian populations along the Line of Control, a position it presented to international bodies and bilateral forums throughout the 2016-2020 period.
Q15. The 2005 Kashmir earthquake measured what magnitude on the Richter scale?
Answer: 7.6 magnitude
Explanation: The October 8, 2005 Kashmir earthquake registered 7.6 on the Richter scale and caused catastrophic destruction across Azad Kashmir and KPK, killing over 73,000 people and displacing millions.
Q16. The 2005 Kashmir earthquake killed over 73,000 people and devastated which city that served as the earthquake's epicentral urban area?
Answer: Muzaffarabad
Explanation: The 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake, measuring 7.6 magnitude, was centred near Muzaffarabad, which suffered catastrophic destruction; the city served as the epicentral urban area, and over 73,000 people were killed across Azad Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Q17. India and Pakistan explore resuming bilateral trade through the Wagah-Attari crossing. The MOST significant non-tariff barrier that has historically prevented normalisation is which of the following?
Answer: Linkage of trade normalisation to resolution of political disputes, particularly the Kashmir issue
Explanation: The most significant barrier to India-Pakistan trade normalisation has been Pakistan's longstanding policy of linking trade relations to political progress on the Kashmir dispute, which has repeatedly stalled economic engagement even when both sides acknowledge mutual trade benefits.
Q18. Pakistan's relations with India have remained largely frozen since India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under which constitutional article in 2019?
Answer: Article 370
Explanation: India revoked the special autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir guaranteed under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in August 2019, bifurcated the state into two Union Territories, and Pakistan suspended bilateral trade and diplomatic relations in response.
Q19. Pakistan's Line of Control with India has been under a ceasefire agreement since which year, reaffirmed in 2021?
Answer: 2003
Explanation: Pakistan and India reached a comprehensive ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control in February 2003; this ceasefire, which significantly reduced cross-border firing, was reaffirmed through a joint statement in February 2021.
Q20. Which OIC resolution in 2022 condemned India's actions in Indian-administered Kashmir including demographic changes?
Answer: Resolution No. 5/48-POL
Explanation: OIC Resolution 5/48-POL, adopted at the 48th OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad in 2022, condemned India's actions in Indian-administered Kashmir including demographic changes, settlement expansion, and revocation of special status.
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