FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION – 2026
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
ESSAY
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE:(i) Make an outline and write a COMPREHENSIVE ESSAY (2500-3000 words) on any ONE of the given topics. Make sure you use different forms of discourse. e.g. exposition, argumentation, description and narration. Credit will be given for the organization. relevance and clarity.
(ii) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
(iii) No Page/Space be left blank between the answer. All the blank pages of Answer Be must be crossed.
(iv) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
1 Youth Bulge: a demographic dividend or a demographic bomb?
2 Local Government System: the missing link in Pakistan’s governance structure.
3 Cyber Security as the new national security frontier.
4 Emerging Multipolar World Order: opportunities and risks for Pakistan.
5 The one who controls the sea, rules the world.
6 There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.
7 Revitalising the agriculture sector of Pakistan.
8 Countering the growing menace of beggary.
9 Politicisation of sports – a new challenge.
10 Nations have no permanent friends and enemies; they have only permanent interests.
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