Potential Political Bargaining (PPB): A more realistic way of handling Kashmir Problem

Abstract

The world’s most minacious conflict over Kashmir has been testing international as well as South
Asian diplomacy for over seventy years. The persisting dispute has put security and survival of the
region at stake as it has become nuclear flashpoint among states involved. Despite great number of
proposals and multiple attempts by stake holders to approach resolution of the conflict, the
potential dispute still prevails. Involvement of United Nations as well as India-Pakistan bilateral
engagements has failed to create any potential outcome over this dispute. Variety of proposals
mainly based on independence and partitioning of disputed state have been presented yet no one
could be materialized. The enormity of dispute requires us to find a more pertinent and realistic
plan to ultimately reach its resolution. The research is an attempt to present one such proposal
based on potential political bargaining as a more realistic plan to eventually resolve Kashmir
conflict once for all. It requires bargaining by all the parties involved. It is an out of box partitionbased proposal meant to resolve the conflict permanently among the states.