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This chapter talks about the main challenges faced by Kashmir—social, political and environmental. Given the history of the region and a strategic location of Kashmir, it argues why it is prudent that India and Pakistan must fight together terrorism and other common issues—social, liveability and environmental, education and poverty, climate change and so on. The chapter also argues why the Kashmir issue, if any, does not need any mediation by any external third party and can be resolved amicably only through dialogue between all stakeholders. The chapter discusses how, historically, Kashmir has been the politically significant part of a pampered State and if the issue will ever go away and, therefore, why India needs a vision to deal with this and other issues in India.
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Koul, B.K. (2020). Main Challenges for Kashmir. In: The Exiled Pandits of Kashmir. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6537-3_5
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