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  • A. Realpolitik
  • B. Isolationism
  • C. Sovereignty
  • D. None of these

Explanation: State sovereignty includes the principle that each state has authority over its own internal affairs and that other states should not…

Correct answer: Sovereignty
  • A. Line of Actual Control
  • B. Line of Peace
  • C. Line of Control
  • D. Red Line

Explanation: The Line of Actual Control, or LAC, is the de facto boundary separating Indian- and Chinese-controlled areas along their disputed…

Correct answer: Line of Actual Control
  • A. after the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • B. before the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • C. after the 1965 Pak-Indian War
  • D. during British period

Explanation: The LAC emerged after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, when the two sides remained in control of different parts of the disputed frontier.

Correct answer: after the 1962 Sino-Indian War
  • A. Line of Ceasefire
  • B. Ceasefire Line
  • C. Line of Control
  • D. 38 Parallel

Explanation: The Line of Control is the de facto military boundary between Indian- and Pakistani-administered parts of Kashmir.

Correct answer: Line of Control
  • A. White Line
  • B. Interim Line
  • C. Ceasefire Line
  • D. Line of Ceasefire

Explanation: Before the Simla Agreement, the Kashmir military demarcation was called the Ceasefire Line, established under the 1949 UN-sponsored…

Correct answer: Ceasefire Line
  • A. December 1973
  • B. December 1974
  • C. December 1972
  • D. December 1971

Explanation: The Ceasefire Line was redesignated as the Line of Control in 1972 under the Simla Agreement, with the arrangement being formalized in…

Correct answer: December 1972
  • A. Order Neisse Line
  • B. White Line
  • C. Neisse Line
  • D. Line of Control

Explanation: The standard name is the Oder-Neisse Line, the post-Second World War boundary between Poland and the former East Germany.

Correct answer: Order Neisse Line
  • A. Pakistan
  • B. Bhutan
  • C. Myanmar
  • D. India

Explanation: The McMahon Line was drawn in 1914 to mark the boundary between Tibet and British India, now India, in the eastern Himalayas.

Correct answer: India
  • A. Thalweg Doctrine
  • B. Mari Doctrine
  • C. B.P (Border Post) Doctrine
  • D. none of these

Explanation: The Thalweg Doctrine places a river boundary along the deepest or navigable channel, normally the mid-channel.

Correct answer: Thalweg Doctrine
  • A. this is India's deviation from historical Indus Water Treaty
  • B. this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable
  • C. Creek is not regularly navigable
  • D. none of these

Explanation: Pakistan rejects applying the Thalweg Doctrine because it is traditionally used for navigable rivers, whereas Sir Creek is not regarded as…

Correct answer: this doctrine is applicable to navigable area and creek is not navigable
  • A. US convention on the Law of Seas
  • B. UN convention on the Law of Seas
  • C. India-Pakistan convention of the Law of Seas
  • D. none of these

Explanation: The reference is to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, which governs maritime zones and continental-shelf…

Correct answer: UN convention on the Law of Seas
  • A. The delta concentration
  • B. The bond or river
  • C. The mid channel
  • D. All of them

Explanation: The thalweg doctrine generally places a river boundary along the mid-channel or deepest navigable channel.

Correct answer: The mid channel
  • A. Navigable
  • B. Not Navigable
  • C. Partially Navigable
  • D. Mostly Navigable

Explanation: The thalweg rule is traditionally applied to navigable rivers, where the channel used for navigation provides a practical boundary.

Correct answer: Navigable
  • A. 1914
  • B. 1915
  • C. 1916
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The Sykes-Picot Agreement was concluded secretly in 1916 during the First World War.

Correct answer: 1916
  • A. 28 August 1922
  • B. 1 May 1922
  • C. 24 July 1922
  • D. 15 November 1922Try Prep Courses

Explanation: The League of Nations formally approved the British Mandate for Palestine on 24 July 1922, incorporating the Balfour Declaration into its…

Correct answer: 24 July 1922
  • A. Israel
  • B. Pakistan
  • C. India
  • D. All of them

Explanation: India, Pakistan, and Israel did not join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as states parties.

Correct answer: All of them
  • A. India
  • B. Israel
  • C. Pakistan
  • D. All of themStream History Documentaries

Explanation: India, Israel and Pakistan are all outside the NPT as non-signatories. Therefore, “all of them” is correct rather than any single country.

Correct answer: All of themStream History Documentaries
  • A. Geneva Protocol in 1930
  • B. Biological Weapons convention on July 15, 1974
  • C. Chemical Weapons convention of September 3, 1996
  • D. all of these

Explanation: India was associated with the Geneva Protocol, joined the Biological Weapons Convention in 1974, and ratified the Chemical Weapons…

Correct answer: all of these
  • A. 1963
  • B. 1959
  • C. 1971
  • D. 1978

Explanation: India joined the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, the year the treaty was opened for signature after the US, UK and Soviet agreement.

Correct answer: 1963
  • A. 15 April, 1960
  • B. 15 April, 1965
  • C. 15 April, 1970
  • D. 15 April, 1975Stream History Documentaries

Explanation: Pakistan acceded to the 1925 Geneva Protocol on 15 April 1960, accepting the prohibition on the use of chemical and biological weapons in…

Correct answer: 15 April, 1960

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