Pushto CSS Paper 2008

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION – 2008
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

PUSHTO

TIME ALLOWED THREE HOURS
PART-I(MCQS) MAXIMUM 30 MINUTES
PART-I (MCQS) MAXIMUM MARKS = 20
PART-II MAXIMUM MARKS = 80

NOTE (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. Answer must be written in the respective language except where specified in the Question paper. All questions carry equal marks.
(iii) All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
(iv) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
(v) No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of the Answer Book must be crossed.
(vi) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.

PART-II

No one who enters, says, Peshawar or Bannu from Punjab, or mounts the hills west of them, can fail to remark that he has left one region of the world for another, and he is one of the verges of the Iranian Plateau. To him the mountains are different, the plants burgeon, the seasons revoke, the willows, the plane, the cypress appear, the rivers flow bight and gay as if alive, the birds recall the west, the sun and wind have uplifting Keenness – the men are the men of Central Asia, not of Sub Continent he has left behind.

(i) Sweep the hoard.
(ii) The Old Adam
(iii) Every bird likes its own nest.
(iv) Advice who heeds it.
(v) Evil words cut deeper than the sword.
(vi) Let life go if honour remains.