KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES (BPS-17) 2013
HISTORY OF PAKISTAN & INDIA, PAPER II
TIME ALLOWED: 03 HOURS MAX: MARKS: 100
Note: Attempt any Five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.1: What were the causes of failure of Sayyed Ahmad Shahid’s Mujahidin Movement? Did Muslims learn any lesson from this failure? Support your view with the subsequent events in the region.
Q.2: Shibli Numani acknowledge modern intellectual milieu and science as a threat to religious faith and his response did not come as defensive apologetic but as a creative reconsideration of the Islamic heritage. Elucidate.
Q.3: 1911 to 1922 is a period of Hindu Muslim friendship. Discuss factors, events and personalities contributed to Muslim Hindu friendship this period.
Q.4: Why did the Khilafat movement fail and point out its impacts on Muslim politics?
Q.5: “Few individuals significantly alter the course of History. Fewer still modify the map of the World. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.” (Stanley Wolpert) How? Elaborate.
Q.6: What were the crucial issues raised inside and outside the Constituent Assembly at the time of constitutional debates in the early days of Pakistan?
Q.7: Ayub regime’s policies succeeded in gaining Bengali support for a national economy and administration or, on the contrary, led to greater Bangali demands for a separate and autonomous economy and administration for East Pakistan. What is your opinion?.
Q.8: Who is responsible for the military intervention in politics; military. bureaucracy, judiciary or politicians?
