FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN GRADES 17 & 16
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,1992
ENGLISH ESSAY

Time allowed: 2 hours
Maximum marks: 50

Write an Essay on any one of the following topics, first making an outline:


1. Full many a flower is born to unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
2. “Let there be light!” said God, “And there was light” “ Let there be blood!” says man, and there’s a sea!
3. “….and eat and drink but be not prodigal Lo! “He loveth not the prodigal,” al-Qur’an, VII: 31.
4. An un-Islamic government may last a while, but tyranny cannot endure.
5. The Eight Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan.
6. Is over population a human capital to be proud of? Discuss with special reference to Pakistan.
7. Unemployment and Pakistani youth.
8. Inflation and the common man. Discuss with reference to Pakistan.
9. Those who will not learn from history shall relieve it.
10. "I disapprove of what you say but l will defend to the death your right to say it.” Voltaire.
11. Procrastination is the thief of time.
12. Resurgence of Central Asia.
13. “Ethnic cleansing” of Bosnian Muslims, repression of Muslims in Occupied Kashmir and flushing out of Palestinians for a home, for the Jews are an insult to human conscience in this enlightened age of science.