Statement: Should India give away Kashmir to Pakistan? Arguments: No. Kashmir…

Concept: In Statement-and-Argument reasoning, an argument is judged strong when it is directly relevant to the statement, addresses a significant aspect of the decision, and is backed by a specific, verifiable reason; it is judged weak when it touches only a superficial angle or rests on a vague, unsubstantiated assertion.

Application:

• Argument I gives a concrete, verifiable reason — Kashmir's role as a major foreign-exchange earner — directly tied to the cost of giving up the state, so it clears the test for a strong argument.

• Argument II asserts only that giving away the state “would help settle conflicts”, without naming the conflict or the mechanism by which it would be resolved — an unsubstantiated generality that does not clear the same test.

Cross-check:

• Testing each argument independently against the same relevance-plus-substantiation standard (rather than pairing them as an either/or alternative) confirms the split: one argument rests on a specific fact, the other does not.

Only argument I is strong.