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CSS English Essay Past Paper 2026
CSS English Essay 2026 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. Candidates write one essay from 10 topics.
- Marks
- 100
- Time
- 3 hours
- Topics
- 10
How to attempt: Prepare an outline and write a comprehensive essay (2500 – 3000 words) on any one of the given topics. You are expected to comprehend the subject issue correctly and articulate your stance with valid arguments and clear ideas duly supported by relevant data and examples. Your articulation, expression and technical treatment of the English Essay will be examined.
Essay topics
- 1Youth Bulge: a demographic dividend or a demographic bomb?
- 2Local Government System: the missing link in Pakistan’s governance structure.
- 3Cyber Security as the new national security frontier.
- 4Emerging Multipolar World Order: opportunities and risks for Pakistan.
- 5The one who controls the sea, rules the world.
- 6There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
- 7Revitalising agriculture sector of Pakistan.
- 8Countering the growing menace of beggary.
- 9Politicisation of sports - a new challenge.
- 10Nations have no permanent friends and enemies, they have only permanent interests.
- Prepare an outline and write a comprehensive essay (2500 – 3000 words) on any one of the given topics. You are expected to comprehend the subject issue correctly and articulate your stance with valid arguments and clear ideas duly supported by relevant data and examples. Your articulation, expression and technical treatment of the English Essay will be examined.
- Must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
- No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
- Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.