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Your future hinges on the 3-hour performance that you actually give on paper in the examination hall. Every year, thousands dream to be a CSP officer; and to make this dream come true, extreme hard work and relentless, devotional efforts are put in. Remember, here your aim is only to get excellent marks so that you may secure a safe …

For all your queries about CSS, PMS, PCS and other Competitive Exams, please write to us or email at the following address: CSS GURU Jahangir’s World Times 121-D, Gulberg II, Lahore. email: cssguru@jworldtimes.com A Word from CSS Guru In November 2013 issue of JWT, Mr Mohsin Ali Mahesar suggested that CSS Guru should also mention common mistakes that are to …

Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): Please tell about your educational background and achievements? Waseem Ahmad (WA): I did my matriculation from a government school in Rawalpindi. I am highly indebted to my teacher Sheikh Fazal Mehmood who is blind yet has a great, fertile mind. He instilled in me the passion to do the best. After my graduation from Abbottabad, I …

It is apparent to every keen eye that the greatest issue Pakistan faces today is religious extremism. It is our misfortune that today this is not merely limited to an ideology. Its communication is through the written and spoken word. It has now crossed these confines and entered the realm of carnage and terrorism. The political, economic and social, in …

History of the human civilization manifests that the powers have emerged and have seen their collapse. Acadians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, ancient China, ancient Greece, Byzantine, and in near past UK, USA, China and Russia have been the ‘superpowers’. As the famous cliche’ goes, history repeats itself, the history is repeating itself nowadays, right in front of us. The emergence …

Corruption, a word having diverse meanings, is defined as dishonesty, misconduct, malversation, fraud, and is a vice-ridden and wicked act certainly an immoral and irreligious action, unethical and unlawful move, and so on. However, the basic sense remains the same’ it is a despicable act in every sense. Though numerous problems are being faced by the humans across the globe, …

Is it just a coincidence that when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was putting his foot on the American soil on October 20, the Pak-US relations also turned 66? Pak-US bilateral relations were established on October 20, 1947. October 2013 brought another happenstance with it; Eid-ul-Azha, on October 16, marked the sacrifice of 7 million animals by Pakistanis, however, many would …

This essay got 3rd position in 1st JWT Essay Competition The failure of a system definitely points towards the malfunctioning of some or all the essential components of that system. Indeed the smooth running of a system is only guaranteed if all major constituents of that system continue to work efficiently in harmony with each other. A state’s system which …

Li-fi is a technology that has been in a process of development for quite some time now. The term Li-Fi ‘Light Fidelity’ was coined by Edinburgh University Prof Harald Haas in 2011, though the technology is also known as visible light communications (VLC). Reading about new energy-efficient technologies that can transform the world to a cleaner and greener place, with …

The ‘Dead Reckoning: Memories of the Bangladesh War’ brings truth to light Sarmila Bose, a granddaughter of Sarat Chandar Bose, a famous Indian nationalist leader and a brother of Subash Chandar Bose is a senior Research Fellow in the politics of South Asia at the University of Oxford. She has been a political journalist in India and combines academic and …