CSS 2021 Explainer (Part – I)
INSIDE:
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How a World Order Ends? (Richard Haass) *
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A New Americanism (Jill Lepore)
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The Longest Wars (George Packer)
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The Self-Destruction of American Power (Fareed Zakaria)
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Putin, the Great (Susan B. Glasser)
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Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System (Chad P. Bown & Douglas A.)
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The Sources of Chinese Conduct (Odd Arne Westad)
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War Is Not Over (Tanisha M. Fazal & Paul Poast)
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Warnings From Versailles (Margaret MacMillan)
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What a military intervention in Venezuela would look like? (Frank O. Mora)
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The United States Should Fear a Faltering China (Michael Beckley)
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Asean’s mid-life crisis in an Age of Geostrategic Flux
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The Post-INF Treaty Crisis: Background and Next Steps *
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The crisis of democracy (Tahir Kamran)
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Pakistan’s Changing Geopolitics (Dr Naazir Mahmood) *
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How to revive SAARC? (Fateh-ul-Mulk Ali Nasir) *
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The failure of institutions in Pakistan (Rabia Ahmed) *
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Why Geopolitics Matters? (Jeremy Black)
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Is imperial geopolitics coming back? (Tarik Oguzlu)
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Global Power dynamics and Pakistan’s foreign policy (Abdul Samad Khan) *
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Tragedy of Pakistani State, Society & Democracy (Jahangir Kakar) *
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Making CPEC Work: Nexus Between Pakistan & China (Ikram Sehgal)
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Future of transatlantic relations and NATO (Tariq Oguzlu) *
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International law – The ‘Deal of the Century’ case (Ferhat Kucuk)
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USA – Afghan deal vs Pak trial in FATF (Rehman Malik)
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Pakistan’s unconditional diplomacy (Reema Shaukat)
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Food inflation – what is driving it? (Dr Kamal Monnoo) *
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Trump, Modi and the Indo-Pacific (Adeela Naureen & Umar Waqar) *
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South Asia: What lies within and beyond. (Naghmana Shahid & Seher Kamran) *
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Pakistan’s impressive refugee (Atle Hetland) *
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FTO – a symbol of good governance (Muhammad Ashraf) *
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Toying with nuclear stability (Samson Simon) *
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Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Formation (Atle Hetland) *
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Child Abuse and deterrent punishment (Usman Hameed) *
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Afghanistan: Light at the end of tunnel? (Javid Husain) *
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Modernising the Muslim world (Shahid Javed Burki) *
Note: This is for general reading on different topics. All topics with an asterisk (*) are important for the exam. Thank you.
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- One
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- Three
- None of these
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- Almine
- Tyrosine
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- None of these
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- USA
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- Armenia
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- None of the above.
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- Adult franchise basis
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- None of these
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- Fission
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- Raw
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- Increases
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- Remains stable
- None of these
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- Superinfection
- Drug resistance
- Allergy
- None of these
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- Refuse
- Pretend
- Disparage
- Condescend
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- Computer
- Handwriting
- Typewriting
- Blood pressure
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- 1950
- 1953
- 1960
- 1963
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- 40 Ahadith
- 50 ahadith
- 30 Ahadith
- 20 Ahadith
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- Grossi’s Formula
- Constitutional Formula
- Democratic Formula
- None of these
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- Secretary, Managing Committee
- President, Managing Committee
- Parton, Managing Committee
- None of these
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- April 21, 1948
- January 7, 1948
- September 23, 1948
- None of these
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- Hector Bolitho
- I. H. Qureshi
- Sikandar Hayat
- None of these
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- Bacteria
- Virus
- Injection
- None of these
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- Kathleen Jamie
- Algernon George
- Robert Crawford
- None of these options
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- The Basij
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- Gasht-e-Ershaad
- None of these options
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- Ants
- Goats
- Sheep
- None of these
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- Mutation
- Crossing over
- Fertilization
- Independent assortment
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- In a DNA molecule, the rule for base pairing is? (CSS 2011 General Science & Ability Paper)
- Adenine always bound with thymine and cytosine with guanine
- Adenine always bound with cytosine and thymine with guanine
- Adenine always bound with guanine and cytosine with thymine
- Adenine always bound with uracil and cytosine with guanine
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- A time can come when we will be able to design a machine which can go on working for ever without the expenditure of energy. Is it possible? (CSS 2010 General Science & Ability Paper)
- No
- Yes
- Very soon
- In due course of time
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- Yeast is used in making bread because it produces? (CSS 2009 General Science & Ability Paper)
- Oxygen
- Sugar
- Bacteria
- Carbon dioxide
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