FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION 1972 FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, PAPER II – Current Affairs Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 100 Note: Answer Five question, All questions carry equal marks. What measures would you suggest to reduce disparities between the have and have-not countries? How…
FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION 1971 FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, PAPER II – Current Affairs Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 100 Note: Answer Five question, All questions carry equal marks. 1. Discuss the political developments in Sudan during 1971. 2. Examine the latest trends in…
FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN B.P.S. – 17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1995 Maximum Marks: 100 Time Allowed: 3 Hours Note: Attempt any five questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Write a comprehensive essay on the universality and eternity of the Holy Quran. 2. Discuss the need and…
The Contempt of Court Ordinance, 2003 Ordinance No. IV of 2003 10th July 2003 An Ordinance to regulate the exercise of the powers of courts to punish for contempt of court. WHEREAS clause (3) of Article 204 of the Constitution of he Islamic Republic of Pakistan Provides that the exercise of the power conferred on…
Pakistan Movement by Alamgir Hashmi PART 1 Movement, sure. Millions moving From that side to this side, From this side to that side, and back again sometimes, Across the thoughtful movement Wherein stood those who were undecided, and suspect, Like border-posts signifying the mid-frontier. The sultry summer-if you know what I mean-behind us. The blistering…
Morning Song By Sylvia Plath Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls. I’m no more…
Digging By Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm…
Woman Work By Maya Angelou I’ve got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed The garden to weed I’ve got shirts to press The tots to dress The cane to be cut…
One’s-Self I Sing By Walt Whitman One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I…
Kubla Khan By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there…
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood By William Wordsworth The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. (Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up”) There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To…
Holy Sonnets Death, be not proud By John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure;…
Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore By William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to…
The Tempest by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples GONZALO, an honest old counsellor Lords ADRIAN FRANCISCO CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave TRINCULO, a jester STEPHANO, a drunken…
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare Contents THE PROLOGUE. ACT I Scene I. A public place. Scene II. A Street. Scene III. Room in Capulet’s House. Scene IV. A Street. Scene V. A Hall in Capulet’s House. ACT II CHORUS. Scene I. An open place adjoining…
Civil Servants Act, 1973 (Act No. LXXI of 1973) An Act to regulate the appointment of persons to, and the terms and conditions of Service of persons in, the service of Pakistan. WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate by law, the appointment of persons to, and the terms and conditions of service of persons, in…
Introduction Book: Culture and Imperialism By Edward Said A bout five years after Orientalism was published in 1978, I began to gather together some ideas about the general relationship between culture and empire that had become clear to me while writing that book. The first result was a series of lectures that I gave at…
On National Culture by Frantz Fanon From Book: The Wretched of the Earth To take part in the African revolution it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves, and of themselves. In…
The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers By Charles Lamb I like to meet a sweep — understand me — not a grown sweeper — old chimney-sweepers are by no means attractive — but one of those tender novices, blooming through their first nigritude, the maternal washings not quite effaced from the cheek — such as come forth…
Of Studies by Francis Bacon Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the…