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The very fundamental rule of cracking a paper successfully is to understand, grasp and discern what the examiner wants you to write. No matter how much time you have spent with the books, subject and on preparation, this paper time will be deciding your promising future if you efficiently  use your wits. TIPS The nature of the question and its …

When there is a population shift from rural to urban areas, or a gradual upsurge in the ratio of people living in urban areas in comparison with the urban centres, it is called urbanization. Various researches have indicated that urban population is greater than the rural one and that most of the urbanization has been observed in developing countries. There …

Nationalism, like nation, is very hard to define clearly and unequivocally. The contention that nationalism is what nationalists make of it, is, in fact, an evasion. There are no two authors, whether sociologists, historians, political scientists, or psychologists, who define nationalism in the same way. This may lead novices in the study of nationalism to infer that, having read a …

So dear aspirants, the day you had been preparing for, for a long time is about to come: the day you attached your dreams to and the day you sacrificed your comfort for. Exam, of whatsoever type it might be, does bring pressure and testing moments; and CSS exam, the one that can change the whole course of your life, …

We have heard numerous times that women are the cornerstone of a progressive nation, the edifice to tolerant civilizations and a basis to everything that concentrates within an influx of virtue. But, while all this might sound too idyllic, the harsh truth is that even in today’s world where nations are empowering their female populace, Pakistan still lags for behind …

The dialogue process for bringing a long-lasting peace in Afghanistan has once again got momentum. The war-torn country, during the last nearly four decades, has suffered colossal losses in form of physical or infrastructural damages, human miseries, tortures or detentions, agonies and pains inflicted on innocent Afghans. In such an environment of cynicism and given the background of such wholesale …

The support for the Operation Zarb-e-Azb, spanning all political parties as well as the general public, with the objective of militarily dealing with terrorists continued successfully in 2015 with a visible decline in the number of terror attacks in the country. The heinous attack on Army Public School on 16th December 2014 continued to galvanize the nation in support of …

The Indian Ocean is the world’s third largest body of water and has become a growing area of competition between China and India. The two regional powers’ moves to exert influence in the ocean include deep-water port development in littoral states and military patrols. Though the probability of military conflict between China and India remains low, escalated activities (such as …

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”, said Martin Luther King Jr. The assertion goes parallel to the emerging global momentum on protecting and promoting human rights the world over. Greater emphasis on values and ideas based on justice, freedom and wider choices and opportunities available to people, hold key to the dynamics of contemporary global political and security …

“Good governance” is a term that has become a part of the vernacular of a large range of development institutions and other actors within the international arena. Almost all major development institutions today promote good governance as an important part of their agendas. In a well-cited quote, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan noted that “good governance is perhaps the single …