FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-1998
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE-III (PAKISTAN AFFAIRS)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. Be specific relevant and to the point as irrelevant answers will be discredited.
1. Without the Quaid-e-Azam’s dynamic and charismatic leadership, the Muslims South Asia would never have achieved a separate homeland. Discuss.
2. The Ulema of Nadva attempted to make a synthesis of Westernism / Modernism of Aligarh and Conservation of Deoband. Discuss.
3. “The very nature of the Round Table Conference condemned them to failure.” Discuss with special reference to the communal issue.
4. As a result of British-Hindu conspiracy on the eve of independence the State of Pakistan which ultimately emerged in August 1947, was not so strong as visualized by the Quaid-e-Azam but only a “mutilated”, “Moth-eaten” and “truncated” Pakistan. Discuss.
5. To what extent this complaint of Pakistan is genuine that Mountbatten had changed the original Radcliffe Boundary Award. Is it true to say that the Pakistani hypothesis of the British Government?
6. Can Objectives Resolution be called ‘Magna Carta’ of Pakistan? Give arguments.
7. Pakistan is not a poor country, it is poorly managed. Comment.
8. The Indian Government follows a paradoxical stand on the problems of Junagarh and Kashmir by “upholding on theory regarding Junagarh with one part of the library and the opposite theory on Kashmir with the other part of the library.” Critically examine.