Expected Questions for CSS – 2013

Essays

1. Gender discrimination in our society
2. The cost of energy crisis in Pakistan
3. Literacy is the only panacea for the ills of Pakistan
4.Media: A double-edged weapon
5. Pakistan: An administrative malaise
6. Islam in the civilizational perspective
7. Climate change: A fact or fiction?
8. Unbridled liberty is no liberty:  Limits of freedom of expression
9. Judicial activism vs. judicial restraint in Pakistan
10. Beggars can’t be choosers
11. Modernisation vs. Westernisation
12. Economic independence ensures sovereignty

Current Affairs
1. Democratisation in Middle East.
2. SAARC and regional development.
3. Balochistan imbroglio.
4. Crisis of governance in Pakistan.
5. Global warming or warning?
6. The gigantic challenges faced by Pakistan.
7. The failure of UNO.
8. The expansionist foreign policy of the sole superpower, USA.
9. Disaster management in Pakistan: A consequence of mismanagement.
10. The Muslim Ummah: A myth.
11. Pakistan-USA relationship: A tale of distrust.
12. Energy crisis is a major cause of economic meltdown in Pakistan.
13. National education policy of Pakistan, 2009.
14. Pakistan-India relations: From hostility to thaw ‘exploring a new South Asian destiny.
15. American exit from Afghanistan, 2014 and the repercussions for Pakistan.
16. China-Pakistan relations: From strategic to economic cooperation.
17. The cost of war on terror for Pakistan.
18. Memo-gate (civil-military balance in Pakistan).
19. Democracy: The case for Pakistan.
20. Judicial activism vs. judicial restraint in Pakistan.
21. Obama’s four more years’ confrontation or conciliation?: US priorities for the 21st century
22. Geo-strategic importance of Pakistan: Demographic dividend or disaster?
23. Attack on Malala: Growing extremism in Pakistan.

Islamiat
1. Define Wahi in the light of the Holy Quran and Hadith. How Wahi solves our problems? Also write its types.
2. What are the individual and collective benefits of the belief in Tauheed and Day of Judgement?
3. Write notes on Namaz, Roza and Zakat.
4. Define primary and secondary sources of law.
5. Discuss in detail the social, political and economic systems of Islam.
6. What are the problems of Muslim Ummah and suggestions to resolve them.
7. What rights has Islam given to women? Compare these rights with the European rights.
8. Islam is a religion of peace. Discuss.

Public Administration
1. Public administration and its approaches.
2. Public corporations.
3. Bureaucracy in Pakistan as an agent of change and the application of Weberian Model.
4. Accountability in Pakistan: Internal and external mechanisms ‘a critical analysis.
5. Private vs. public administration: A comparative analysis.
6. Developing administrative leadership in Pakistan.
7. The planning structure/procedure in Pakistan.
8. Principles of administrative organisation: How far true in Pakistani perspective.
9. Personnel administration in Pakistan: Different systems of recruitment.
10. The status of governance in Pakistan.
11.Local self-government: Its past, present and future in Pakistan.
12. Financial administration:
(a)  Budgetary procedure in Pakistan
(b)  Accounting and auditing of public sector organistation in Pakistan.

Muslim Law & Jurisprudence
1. The sources of Islamic Law  esp. Ijtehad.
2. Marriage: essentials, kinds and modes.
3. Talaq: kinds and procedure.
4. Dower and dowry.
5. Will (bequest): limitations on the testamentary powers of a Muslim and revocation of will.
6. Gift (Hiba): its essentials and kinds, deathbed gifts and acknowledgments.
7. Waqaf: its essentials, kinds, powers and duties of mutawalli.
8. Pre-emption (Shufa): its grounds and kinds.
9. Islamic law of inheritance: Its rules esp. rule of representation and impediments to inheritance.
10. Guardianship of the minor (ward) under the Guardians and Wards Act: duties and powers of a guardian and fiduciary relationship.
11. Critical analysis of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961.
12. Distinction between Hudood Laws and Tazir.
13. Short Notes:
a) Custody of a child (Hizanat)
b) Maintenance of wives
c) Polygamy
d) Option of puberty
e) Iddat (waiting) period

International Law
1. Introduction, definition and nature of International Law
2. Is International Law a true law or a positive morality? Explain with references of cases.
3. Sources of International Law and its subjects.
4. The nature and different kinds of state’s responsibility under international law.
5. Acquisition of territorial sovereignty and extradition and how it is done? High seas and asylum.
6.  Peaceful and offensive mode of settling disputes in International law.
7. Defence treaties, diplomatic immunity and duties under International law .
8. State secession and recognition of new states de facto and de jure state.
9. General Assembly, Security Council, ICJ, Veto, problems and solution of UNO and its role in resolving the international issues.

US History
1. In what way did the philosophy and purpose of Jacksonian democracy differ from those of the Jeffersonian democrats?
2. The ‘New Deal’ was to save capitalism but ironically it was denounced by the Capitalist Class. Why?
3. Some American historians insist that the American Revolution was a social upheaval as well as a political revolt. Discuss the social and economic results of the revolutionary years.
4. The American Constitution is a system of ‘Checks and Balances’. Discuss.
5. The American War of Independence was a revolt against mercantilism. Discuss.
6. Critically examine the significance of the issue of slavery in American history which led to the Civil War of 1860.
7. Discuss ‘War against Terror’ as an instrument of US foreign policy with special reference to the Obama administration.
8. Describe in detail the colonial period in the history of the United States of America.
9. Discuss the era of Harry S. Truman in particular reference to the Cold War.
10. Discuss briefly Civil Rights Movement in USA in special reference to Afro-American and women’s rights movements.
11. Miscellaneous Short notes: Dollar Diplomacy, Watergate Scandal, Missouri Compromise 1820, Marshal Plan, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Great
Depression 1929, the Cold War era, the compromise of 1850, Yalta Conference.

Journalism
Q1: What is the history of services of Muslim journalists in the subcontinent?
Q2: What is the role of social media in Pakistan? Give reasons for the popularity of social networking sites in Pakistani youth and also discuss its impacts on young minds?
Q3: The 21st century is known as the century of advertising… Do you agree? What latest trends are being followed in advertising industry?
Q4: Freedom comes with responsibility. Analyse the statement in view of the role that Pakistani media has been playing for the last couple of years after acquiring freedom.
Q5: Pakistan, these days, is going through a critical phase of clash of institutions. Do you think that media being the fourth pillar of the state can amicably chip in to make the various organs of state work independently, yet integrated?
Q6: Modernization can be achieved even without following the West. Keeping this statement in mind elucidate the impacts of private TV channels on the society of Pakistan.
Q7: A movement has been launched by the parents and teachers in Pakistan against the trend of free packages offered by the cellular companies. Do you think this step of parents is in the right direction and the authorities must adhere to that?  Please analyse, keeping in view the moral degradation being observed in youth after this trend.
Q8: What lessons can today’s journalists learn from the efforts, services and reforms brought about by Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar, Abdul Kalam Azad and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan?

Islamic History & Culture

Paper-I
1. Comment on the moral, social and political conditions of the world at the advent of Islam.
2.Migration to Madina, Battle of Badr, Treaty of Hudabiyah, the Farewell Pilgrimage.
3. Teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)
4. Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) and Hazrat Umar Farooq (RA): Battles and administration.
5. Hazrat Ali (RA).
6. Causes of the downfall of Umayyads and their administration.
7. Scientific, literary and philosophical contribution of the Abbasids.
8. Muhammad, the Conqueror.
9. Sulemain, the magnificent.
10. Causes of downfall of the Ottoman Empire.
11. Problems of the Muslim Ummah and their solutions.

Paper-II
1.The conquest of Spain and spread of Islam.
2.Renaissance Movement.
3.The Muslims’ contribution to social and natural sciences with focus on philosophy and medicine.
4.Architecture, painting, music, pottery and calligraphy.
5.Abdur Rehman Ad Dakhil, Abdur Rehman al Nasir, Abdur Rehman II.
6.The conquest and spread of Islam in North Africa.
7.Short notes:
1. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 2. Ibn Rushd (Averroes) 3. Ziryab
4. Ibn Khuldun 5. Muwatta

Geography

Paper-I
1. Landforms made by rivers, glaciers and wind with reference to erosion, transportation and deposition.
2. Define rocks: their types and structure.
3. Earthquake with reference to Plate Tectonic Theory.
4. Give causes of the ocean movement of Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
5. Write a note on the cycle of erosion and deposition.
6. Give in detail the characteristics, plantation and human life in Hot Wet Equatorial, Monsoon Region and Western Sahara.
7. Short notes:
1. Rainfall 2. Cyclone 3. Clouds
4. Air mass 5. Waves 6. Mountains

Paper-II
1. Relationship of possiblism and determinism.
2. Population, structure, growth, world distribution, population of South Asia and its problems.
3. Agriculture and its types.
4. Primary, secondary and tertiary activities.
5. Wheat and rice: their growth, types, physical and economic factors and trade.
6. Oil, coal, steel and iron industries with special emphasis on the places where they are available.
7. Forestry and fisheries
8. Relationship of the developed and least developing countries.
9. Migration and urbanization: their types, problems and solutions. Also see push and pull factors.
10. Short notes:
1. OPEC 2. SAARC 3. EU 4. OGCD 5. UNO