If a person has interest or can study and tackle Intl Relations, Intl Politics, Game-changing matters of the world and the geopolitics of the world and Pakistan, he should opt I.R. I think, background does not mar the optional but lack of interest and understanding of the certain subject do so.

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"But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail." _Shakespeare, 'Macbeth')