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CSS Current Affairs Past Paper 2023

CSS Current Affairs 2023 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 7 questions.

Marks
100
Time
3 hours
Questions
7

How to attempt: Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

This paper comes from a retyped copy, as no printed FPSC copy was available. Its wording may differ slightly from the original.

Questions

Question 1 (Part I) is the paper's MCQs, which are not reproduced here.

  1. Q. 2
    Discuss historic Pakistan and Turkey bilateral relations beyond the areas of socio-economic and strategic realms. Explain its geopolitical ripple effects in the Himalayas, the Arabian Peninsula, and the South Caucasus.
    (20)
  2. Q. 3
    The UN climate summit (COP-27) in Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) discussed Pakistan catastrophic summer floods exacerbated by climate change and the country is facing imminent threat of epidemics and other multi-dimensional dangers. Discuss the COP-27 roadmap to face the challenge of climate change and proposed measures for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Pakistan.
    (20)
  3. Q. 4
    Discuss the core causes of Russian invasion of Ukraine which have considerable socio-economic, political and strategic consequences on the world. Explain its devastating impact on Pakistan and its severe lesson for the country's survival.
    (20)
  4. Q. 5
    Discuss the project idea of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is the great leap forward of economic regionalization in the globalized world. Explain its potential advantages, challenges and future prospects.
    (20)
  5. Q. 6
    November 15, 2022, will be a historic date in humanity's history because at this date the Earth's population reached to the 8 billion mark. Critically discuss that the 21st century is a century of rapid population growth which has a devastating negative impact in the world. Explain the severe consequences of rapid population growth which will affect to every country on earth.
    (20)
  6. Q. 7
    Critically discuss the conceptualized energy's influence on the world geo-politics and its distinctiveness of global energy governance.
    (20)
  7. Q. 8
    Critically discuss that why Pakistan's economic growth continues to be "Balance-of-Payments" constraint which is one of the core cause to keep the foreign exchange reserves under pressure. Do you think that Pakistan's export performance remains the most relevant long-term challenge to alleviate the balance-of-payments constraint for sustained economic growth and explain radical structural reforms to improve export performance?
    (20)
  1. Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
  2. Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
  3. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
  4. Write Q. No in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No in the Q. Paper.
  5. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
  6. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.

FPSC's wording, numbering and marks, as printed. Obvious misprints (a garbled word, a broken number) are corrected; everything else is kept as FPSC printed it.

The written exam starts with the MPT

Only candidates who pass the MCQ screening test (MPT) sit the written papers. Practice the 200-question MPT under exam conditions first.