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CSS Pakistan Affairs Past Paper 2022

CSS Pakistan Affairs 2022 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.

Questions

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

  1. Q. 2
    Discuss the role of regional and nationalist political parties in Pakistani politics. How far these parties are necessary for the political system?
    (20)
  2. Q. 3
    Discuss the Federal Structure of 1973 Constitution of Pakistan after 18th Amendment. Why criticism on 18th Amendment started recently?
    (20)
  3. Q. 4
    Evaluate the factional politics of early years(1947-58) and its impact on the democratic process of Pakistan.
    (20)
  4. Q. 5
    Every state designs its foreign policy on its National interests rejecting feelings and emotions. Why did Pakistan prefer emotions, feelings and Ideology in its foreign policy? Also analyze its impact.
    (20)
  5. Q. 6
    What is the volume of grants, aid and loans in Pakistan’s economy in the last ten years to stimulate the growth? Discuss.
    (20)
  6. Q. 7
    Why did Pakistan join Western Defense Pacts? What cost it had to pay for that? Explain.
    (20)
  7. Q. 8
    Discuss the issues and mistrust in US-Pakistan relations after the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan.
    (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.