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There is no easy way but to develop your intrest in subjects like current affairs, I would like to suggest to don't just rely on dawn for current affairs, try to watch news channels I.e BBC world,CNN, Aljazeera English and any geo news etc and various webs for the purpose, In this way you can develop your intrest as well as you'll keep urself updated of latest happenings.

There is no short cut for the preparation of C. A paper. Dawn is rightly said the bible o CSS. However over obsession with Dawn results in killing of lit of time. You better read only first and the last page , editorial page and World in focus page. Besides Dawn , now a days , Jahqngir World Times magazine is proving greatly instrumental in preparation of C. A as well as essay. It is particularly meant for CSS aspirants and contains articles on all important contemporary current national and international issues likely to be taken in C. A , Pak Affairs and Essay Papers. Don't give Dawn more then two hours. Hope this suggestion works as I myself am following this successfully.

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I personally think that if there is no age bar to you, you need not appear in CE2013. Take your time and prepare well all of your 12 subjects. Do not even try to waste your 1st attempt. As far as Dawn is concerned, I read the important things within 45 minutes. Moreover, 1st Page, Back Page, Opinion, Editorial page, International news, Business Analysis and Comments especially on Monday are more than enough. Do not read every Nawaz and PPP Debate or alike. Just Focus on Hard news such as Country,s Energy Crisis, Foreign Policy, Dignitaries' Visits, Economy and so on. In addition, If you have time you must read INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BY SAFDAR MEHMOOD coupled with Daily Dawn.I hope you understand what i want to say...Take Care.

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Dear Ahmad Faisal sir this is my first chance and I don't want to give up Sir problem with me is that I want to climb the mountain but not able to find the corner of a rope once I hold it I am 100% sure I will reach to the top. plz advice me from where I should Start and what strategy I should apply

I appeared in CSS-2012 without any preparation (Raat ko parha subah paper diyea) just to check my natural ability and for kill CSS-Jinn and Alhumdulillah got Total 476 marks in which 341 marks accepted.

Compulsory

Essay: 31
Composition: 10
GK1: 34
GK2: 31
GK3: 29
Islamiyat: 50

Optional

Business Administration: 74
Computer Science: 45
Indo Pak A: 47
Indo Pak B: 48
Urdu A: 44
Urdu B: 33

Are these marks good ?

Now I started preparation for the my next attempt. I am going to change Indo-Pak History to Psychology and Computer Science to Sociology. I am just confuse about Current Affairs how to prepare for it how many days I read the Dawn News for Essay and Current Affairs what most members recommended. Please give me guidance because I am not sure Am I eligible for this attempt or not my date of birth is 6th of Jan, 1985.

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First thing you are eligible for the coming attempt of 2013. The score you achieved though is very low but not bad without preparation. Brother now you are starting and time left is very short. You will have to show great dedication and will have to work hard. For current affairs and essay keep reading Dawn.
Best of Luck.

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Tassawar Sir am much worry about current affairs and english essay

In my previous post to you , I have tried to explain about it.
See fear or worry of anything only proves to be a hurdle.
Is it going to help ?
For essay and C. A keep having eye on Dawn it and J. W. T magazine.
And keep practicing writing English. It, I mean writing practice , enhances one's confidence. The more you will write the more your fear for essay and C. A would decrease. And if you won't practice you would keep on gathering fear over fear.

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Let me know your complete Date of birth and educational background???

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Meeting some of America’s key policy wonks a couple of months back at Stanford University was instructive. These were no ordinary men and women. They have their hand, and say, in whatever becomes of Afghanistan and US-Pakistan in the coming months. Tellingly though, they did not have a plan, or what I prefer calling a blueprint, on what may play out in the remaining 26 months as “curtains” is called on America’s latest military expedition. They were honest enough to admit that they needed help as December 2014 rushes unremittingly.
Since then there have been other American experts on the region, who have been travelling in to feel the sense around and gather pointers to help lead their own thought process. Forget, Iran, Russia or China or any misgivings of a fanciful Great Game; they are thinking Afghanistan and Pakistan and what might work. One other nugget is to see how the UK-Pakistan-Afghanistan trio results and whether America’s imminent desire to exit Afghanistan can find a plausible basis from that interaction. The US is equally keen for Afghanistan’s main regional players, including Russia and China, to cobble an agreement to find sustainable peace in Afghanistan. The New York Times in an editorial on October 13 conveniently glossed over even that imperative of ‘sustainable peace’ and practically concedes that there will be an inevitable mess in Afghanistan after the US leaves, and there is little that the US may do which just might retard such an eventuality.
Enter Paul Kennedy, the uncontested doyen of geo-political assessment, and this is what he had to say in a piece for the NYT, reproduced in the International Herald Tribune of October 19, 2012, “that the foreign policies of the number one power are those of drifting downstream, with little sense of destination”. He does not consider such a drift inimical to long-term US interests, since he sees, “(an) amazingly lucky geopolitical situation that the United States inhabits” — Canada and Mexico are no threats; “its armed forces are huge”, as an insurance against any surprise; and, “its agricultural sources are massive, as are its secure freshwater supplies. And its demographic future is … a favourable one. So, why the need for America to go rushing around everywhere? Why not stay still for a while?” He then concludes by saying: “America may drift downstream a while longer, until it bumps into a really transforming event?” He foresees none such in the current environment. So, expect America to sleep longer by contemporary standards in geopolitical developments. That includes Arab Spring and what will finally fall Afghanistan’s way as its inevitable fate. Forget the niceties, the human rights or assurances against gender equality, it is ‘Time to pack up’.”
Narrow down to North Waziristan and our current obsession to go in, or not go in there. Place it in the emerging geopolitical context and it boils down to a very localised, national decision. Yes, it will impact Afghanistan some and will have repercussions for Pakistan itself, but when both Afghanistan and Pakistan are out there in the cold, without as much as a hug from those who drove the dynamics here for the last full decade, it better be left to Pakistan’s own capacity, own objectives and own means; and indeed own timing. Suddenly, the proverbial ‘do more’ seems comical and irrelevant.
Here then is the deal: both Afghanistan and Pakistan develop a timeline of dialogue between various factions within Afghanistan and with those nestled in Pakistan — this is where Pakistan has a role in an intra-Afghan dialogue. This will find a place back home for those that have availed of our hospitality for all these years and lighten the load for our own burden to follow. This will also leave some hope for the surviving structure to endure when the foreign props are no more. Walk into North Waziristan without such extrication of the foreign groups and you ensure their continuous engagement and location in situ. That might lighten the burden for Afghanistan but is sure to set fire to the entire region of Fata without a chance to control the spread of the cinder.
Pakistan has its own war to fight for sure, but it hasn’t yet begun. It shall have to be fought in parallel on more than one front from ideological to armed, but only when the enemy is cleansed of its foreign composites. Act against the Afghans, while you ostensibly fight your own nemeses, since they remain collocated, and you tie them both in an inextricable brotherhood without ever hoping for your load to lighten. In such a situation, the Pakistani military should expect itself to remain stuck in the muddle for at least 10 to 15 years, if not longer. Detractors need only see the US/Nato experience in Afghanistan. In the current scenario, with the army still not kinetically engaged in North Waziristan, stabilising operations in the rest of Fata will need at least another five years.
It would be safe to assume that Mr Grossman would have imposed North Waziristan in the discussions, though, it has zilch impact on the ultimate American decision, if nothing else works, to ‘cut and run’. He must have done so to keep the baddies engaged in Pakistan and more importantly headed away from Kabul giving a sense of stability and sustainability to post-American Afghanistan and as a convenient fig for the world sole superpower to save face. The NYT editorial — no mean indicator of official thinking — envisions a worst case scenario where the Pashtuns/Taliban combo will control the south and the east and impose their philosophy of life while Northern Afghanistan may simply continue in the momentum that the US will leave behind and Kabul would sustain. What that will deal to Pakistan as a hand can only be feared for its dastardly consequences.
Going into North Waziristan on impulse will only prolong the sapping war that has already emaciated us to the utmost. Hoping for Mr Grossman to find us a grand vision will remain only a pipedream; going by what I know, none exists. Little fermentation is possible in minds that are already toying futility. The solution will have to be ours alone and it better be rational.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 24th, 2012.