Lessons to Learn from CSS 2019 Examination Written part of Competitive Examination CSS 2019 is over. As always, it’s time to analyze this year’s question papers and exam trends. As for their content and style, it cannot be denied that these question papers nonplussed most of the candidates, especially those who thought they would get through by relying on traditional …
Read More »Success in CSS Made Easy
Like previous years, 5this year, too, World Times Institute conducted Mock Exams, for CSS 2019 aspirants. During this exercise, we received 7000 + papers to assess. One thing that I and my team noted vividly was that most aspirants could not manage time properly, ergo failed to solve the required number of questions. They did not cite references, didn’t prove …
Read More »Pakistan Making Progress on External and Internal Fronts (Editorial February 2019)
January 2019 has been a month of encouraging progress for Pakistan on external as well as internal fronts, with two big events, that is, Afghan peace talks and the mini-budget, dominating as the talk of the town. As for the first one, a major breakthrough was achieved in peace talks between Afghan Taliban and the United States, which was made …
Read More »How to Crack CSS 2019 Exam (Editorial January 2019)
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pelé Since CSS 2019 written exam is scheduled to start from 14th February 2019, it is an opportune time for the aspirants to know the secrets of success in this prestigious competitive exam. …
Read More »Honeymoon Over, Reality Sets In! (Editorial December 2018)
“Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently.” — Catherine Pulsifer A lot of hullabaloo by opposition, much-hyped austerity drive, euphoria over 5 million homes and 10 million new jobs, slogans of strict accountability, economic upheaval, plummeting of stock exchange, rupee in a freefall, judicial activism, TLP’s sit-in that brought the …
Read More »The World in Flux and Pakistan (Editorial November 2018)
How to make lemonade of lemons Pakistan’s location gives it “A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.” — Joseph Fort Newton With changes happening at a rapid pace, the world seems to be in a fluid state. A great many developments in the realm …
Read More »Making Right Decisions for CSS 2019 (Editorial October 2018)
The result for the written part of CSS 2018 exam is out and, as per the official notification, a total of 24,010 candidates had submitted their admission forms but 11,887 chose to actually appear in the written exam. And out of this lot, only 569 candidates – 4.79 percent of those appeared – have qualified. Given the very low pass …
Read More »An Uphill Battle Starts (Editorial September 2018)
After a struggle spanning twenty-two years, Kaptaan has, finally, taken the helm of the ship named Pakistan. He had, in the recent past, made tall claims and lofty promises to turn this country into a Naya Pakistan. Now the time has come to live up to those. His initial announcements after assuming the office of the Prime Minister of Pakistan …
Read More »The Pakistani Brand of Democracy (Editorial May 2018)
The terrible tyranny against the ‘demos’ “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.” ― Leon Trotsky The words ‘true democracy’, ‘sanctity of vote’ and ‘let the people decide’ are in the air nowadays. Although every democrat would support these ideals, yet most people, who form the ‘demos’ part of democracy, find …
Read More »Unfettered Bureaucracy (Editorial April 2018)
The Key to a Flourishing and Prosperous Pakistan “May be some of you may fall victim for not satisfying the whims of ministers. I hope it does not happen, but you may even be put to trouble, not because you are doing anything wrong but because you are doing right.” – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s address to the civil servants …
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