Long-awaited Gas Pipeline agreement has been finally inked by Iran and Pakistan. Both countries signed historic deal partly out of feeling of Islamic solidarity, to take Pakistan out of energy crisis, and partly to frustrate Western countries’ imposed isolation on Iran in the name of nuclear programme. The gas pipeline is not the only one that will limit to Pakistan …
Read More »Gwadar Port: Geo-economic and Geostrategic Dimensions
Gwadar has geostrategic significance as it lies on the conduit of three most commercially important regions of the world. Gwadar has geostrategic significance as it lies on the conduit of three most commercially important regions of the world. The oil rich Middle East, Central Asia bestowed with natural resources, and South Asia having the potential for growth, for this century. …
Read More »WORLD IN FOCUS (Jan 2012- Feb 2013)
News From National & International Press National Jan 16: The ministry of Law and Justice issued the notification for the appointment of Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui and Justice Noorul Haq N. Qureshi as Islamabad High Court (IHC) judges. Jan 17: MPA Manzar Imam, a member of the Sindh Assembly belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was killed. Jan 17: The …
Read More »New Provinces in Pakistan: A Debate and Controversy
The debate on the creation of new provinces evokes a mixed response, pitting the emotionalists or alarmists against the rationalists. Pakistan is passing through an innovative phase of history, particularly due to its experimentation with a new form of federalism as enunciated in the 18th Amendment. While the model of centre-province relations in the 1956, 1962 and 1973 constitutions remained …
Read More »The Philosopher Par Excellence
The Greek philosopher and polymath, Plato, who is also referred to as the father of idealism in political philosophy, is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy. Following is a panoramic view of the life of this great …
Read More »Quotable Quotes
1. The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. — Bertrand Russell 2. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. — Martin Luther King Jr. 3. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something –Thomas Henry Huxley 4. Wit …
Read More »Vocabulary In News
swivel: (v) revolve, rotate, swing around An owl swivels his head to visualize the surroundings. spurn: (v) reject, contemn, despise, rebuff, reprobate Investors have plenty of reasons to spurn PIA. denigrate: (v) belittle, malign, asperse, defame He has been known to both praise and denigrate “talent” equally. implacable: (adj.) merciless, grim, inflexible, rancorous, vindictive An officer with a face of …
Read More »HOW TO WRITE A PRECIS
What is a Precis? A Precis is the expression of a given passage in a condensed form. A precis has to be a shorter re-statement of the original. In the examination, the length of the precis is mentioned, and the precis should not exceed or fall short of the prescribed length by more than 5 words. In case the length …
Read More »This Month in History March
March 1, 1974 Seven former high-ranking officials of the Nixon White House were indicted for conspiring to obstruct the investigation into the Watergate break-in. Among those indicted were former chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, former top aide John Ehrlichman, and former attorney general John Mitchell. March 2, 1943 – During World War II in the Pacific, a Japanese convoy was …
Read More »QUERIES FOR CSS MENTOR
1.Why a candidate undergoes inferiority complex and how should he shun that? Inferiority complex is very common among the CSS aspirants. The issue is how you handle it. There are thousands of candidates preparing for this exam, many of them have been preparing for years. A large number of candidates compare their preparation level with that of others. They somehow …
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