Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: India's External Relations

Question:

Match the following agreements in List 1 correctly with the year in which they were signed in List 2:

List 1- Agreements/Treaty List 2- Year
a) Shimla Agreement i) April 1954
b) Tashkent Declaration ii) July 1972
c) Panchsheel iii) September 1960
d) Indus Water Treaty iv) January 1966

 

Options:

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- iii

(a)- ii, (b)- iii, (c)- i, (d)- iv

(a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- ii

(a)- i, (b)- iv, (c)- ii, (d)- iii

Correct Answer:

(a)- ii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- iii

Explanation:

The Simla Agreement was signed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan on 2nd July 1972.

Tashkent Agreement, (Jan. 10, 1966), an accord signed by India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan.

The Panchsheel, or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was first formally signed on April 29, 1954, by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Premier Zhou Enlai. 

Indus Waters Treaty,  a treaty, signed on September 19, 1960, between India and Pakistan and brokered by the World Bank.