Current Affairs (CSS And PMS Syllabus): Candidates are expected to show such public knowledge of history, politics and affairs, as deemed necessary to interpret current affairs.

List Of Important Content

(According to FPSC)

CURRENT AFFAIRS (COMPULSORY)
Total Marks: 100
Time Allowed: 3 hours

1.Pakistan’s Domestic Affairs (20 marks)

 1. Political
 2. Economic
 3. Social

2.Pakistan’s External Affairs (40 marks)

1. Pakistan’s relations with its Neighbors (India, China, Afghanistan, Russia)
 2. Pakistan’s relations with the Muslim World (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia,
      Turkey)
 3. Pakistan’s relations with the United States
 4. Pakistan’s relations with Regional and International Organizations (UN, SAARC,
     ECO, OIC, WTO, CW)

3.Global Issues (40 marks)

  • 1.  International Security
  •  2. International Political Economy
  •  3. Human Rights
  •  4. Environment: Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord
  •  5. Population: world population trends, world population policies
  •  6. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
  •  7. Global Energy Politics
  •  8. Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Security
  •  9. Nuclear Politics in South Asia
  •  10. International Trade (Doha Development Round and Bali Package)
  •  11. Cooperation and Competition in the Arabian Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
  •  12. Millennium Development Goals, Current Status,
  •  13. Globalization
  •  14. Middle East Crisis
  •  15. Kashmir Issue
  •  16. Palestine Issue

 SUGGESTED READING FOR Current Affairs (CSS Syllabus)

S.No. Title Author
1.Pakistan Foreign Policy 1947-2005: A
Concise History, 2011
Abdul Sattar,
2.The issue in Pakistan’s Economy, 2010Akbar S. Zaidi
3.Pakistan: A Hard Country, 2012Anatol Lieven
4.Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th ed.,
2009
Baxter, Malik, Kennedy &
Oberst,
5.Introduction to International Political
Economy, 2010
David Balaam & Bradford
Dillman
6.International Organization (Second Edition)
2012
Volker Rittberger, Bernhard
Zangl and Andress Kruck
7.The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in
Treacherous Times (2011)
Mohamed ElBaradei
8.International Relations, 2012Joshua Goldstein
9.World Politics: Trends & Transformation,
2011
Kegley & Blanton
10.Pakistan Beyond the Crisis, 2011Maleeha Lodhi
11.Globalization in Question, 2009Paul Hirst
12.International Political Economy: Interests &
Institutions in the Global Economy, 2010
Thomas Oatley
13.Politics and Change in the Middle East, 10th
Ed., Pearson, 2012
Andersen, Seibert, and
Wagner
14.Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani
Bomb, (2012)
Feroz Khan

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http://www.fpsc.gov.pk/jobs/css/competitive-examination-css-2020s.

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