Hi All

I have learnt from a friend in Islamabad who had met with those candidates who had their interviews that following questions were frequently asked from almost all candidates:

• Inflation and measures to curb it
• Food crisis
• Restoration of the judiciary in Pakistan- whose achievement, who benefitted, and what are its consequences for the country
• WTO and globalozation

Interview was mainly focused on the personality of the candidates, whatever he/ she had written in his/ her psychological test. They also asked about the favourite personalities and books one had written in psychological test.

If anyone gets any additional information please do share. Candidiates are reluctant to share their experiences I don't understand why; its sad.

Interview Date: 09/01/2010.
Center: Islamabad.

The weather was excellent. My interview was scheduled at 11:30 A.M. I reached at 10:45. Interview started at 12:15 P.M.

I seeked their permission to enter, i said A.O.A. Chairman saab said " have a seat". I said Thank You Sir.

Chairman saab started first of all.

Q.1. Mr. Safdar you did Chemical Engg. in 2006, what you have been doing since then upto now?

Q.2. You mentioned in your psychological test that your weakness is that you are over possesive and over demanding. Explain it?

Q.3. What is the general perception of Police department in the public eyes? (My ist preference is police)

Q.4. Who is your role model as a police officer?

Ans. Sir a few months back there occured a suicide attack outside the Judicial complex in Peshawar. A police official standing at the gate detected the suicide bomber and stopped him from entering. The police official sacrificed his own life but he saved the lives of so many other ppl sitting inside. I salute the courage of that police official and he is my role model. He should be the role model of every police officer.

Q.5. How can we improve the environment of Pakistan ( regarding pollution)?

Q.6. How can we industrialise our country?

Then sohail Safdar saab asked these questions:

Q.1. Mr. Safdar who is heading the constituitional reforms committe?

Q.2. what are three main issues about the 17th Amendment that have caused so much debate?

Q.3. What are the qualities of ideal police officer?

Q.4. What reforms would you suggest in political parties act?

Q.5. How we can tackle the problem of terrorism in Pakistan?

Then Asif Shah saab asked:

Q.1. You mentioned that your favourite personality is your father. Reasons?

Q.2. What are the causes of energy crisis in Pakistan?

Q.3. What are the benefits of independent judiciary?

Q.4. How can we build foreign exchange reserves of Pakistan?

Finally Saud zafar saab asked:

Q.1. Mr. Safdar how can we reduce the foreign debt of Pakistan?

Q.2. You opted C.Law, what is the main difference b/w Pakistan, U.S.A and British constitutions?

Q.3. Did you join any academy for CSS preparation?

Ans. Yes, Sir i did join an academy for a period of abt 5 months.

Q.4. Do you think academy was beneficial for you?

Q.5. How can we reduce foreign debt of Pakistan?

Last question. You mentioned in your psychological that you had to give up your love affair bcoz both of you were unable to marry each other due to caste system. Is it an opportunity lost for ever?

Ans. Yes sir, now she is engaged and is going to be married in a few months time.

They thanked me, i said " sir it was pleasure talking to you ppl, thank you very much"


Safdar Jang,
Student of Officers Academy,
Lahore.

__________________
CSS 2009, 2010, 2011 Qualifier

@Safdar
Bro, Thanks a lot for being generous enough to share your experience. May I ask the duration of your interview and is that all they asked....nothing specific about optionals?

Hope you get your first preference!

BTW what are the three issues regarding 17th amendment?

@Sardonic
We are waiting

__________________
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
-Gandhi

My interview on 14th Jan…Time 12:10-12:47 pm

I was the seventh one to go in the interview room to face the panel. The panel consisted of the chairman, Mr.Suhail Safdar, Mr. Saud Gauhar, and Mr. Asif Shah. I entered the room and was really well received by Rana Sahb and Asif Sahb and the other two gentlemen looked kind of disinterested …Any how I was asked to take my seat and directly was asked a question that I have always dreaded to discuss…
Chairman: Well hello young lady how are you doing? Please take your seat.
Me: I am doing perfectly well sir…I took my seat
Chairman: well ayesha as per I see, an excellent academic record holder and an active participants of all extra activities, what happened in HSSC?
ME: ..Some cross questions here by all members I don’t know what they were trying to figure out. I told them all the reasons I could think about and after a gud solid discussion over it they seemed satisfied.
Chairman: Discuss with me in detail that one stand you took and you are sticking to it even today, what were they effects of that stand on your life?
Me: I discussed it and in good solid detail as per he had instructed me, and how it has affected my life, some cross questions followed…
Chairman: Next he asked me that being the eldest daughter with an important place in my parent’s life was I never able to mould my father’s shortcomings like unpredictability and short temperedness…
To this I replied that it is not only a habit but because it has been with him since I remember it; it has more or less become his nature. And you know habits can be changed but nature remains…

Chairman: So can we say that corruption has become the nature of Pakistanis it’s no longer a habit?
No sir I don’t feel this way, not all Pakistanis happen to be corrupt. We have lacked morally at times but I feel that we can still mould our youth because we are more open to ideas, we are ready to unlearn and learn from past mistakes. Yet when you talk about some already existing corrupt people I see accountability can help us eradicate that menace also.
Chairman: About your favorite book, what was it all about and why it had such a lasting impact on you?
I explained…He seemed fine with it

Chairman: You said your favorite personality was Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan, what you think “does he deserve what ever is happening to him? How do you feel over it? Was he right in helping others with knowledge he had?
Me: I feel this way for him because I am a patriot and it is only because of him that we stand nuclear today, all the external aggression can be dealt with, even by having the technology he helped us acquire. We are definitely not being fair to him because firstly he is a Pakistani citizen next a nuclear scientist our constitution gives him the right to live like a free citizen, unless things are proved against him we shouldn’t restrict him. If he himself feels that the security conditions are not favorable for him he may choose to restrict himself. About the thing that he sold the technology there are two perspectives to this one also 1. He may have sold it…He is a human being, mortals do make mistakes, mistakes can never be justified. 2. If he didn’t do it and took all the blame. He is not the one to be blamed if he did it for national interests.

Chairman: Smiling. Why Foreign Service Ayesha?
Sir it has been an old sought dream a childhood fantasy as per I remember, moreover it’s a relatively cleaner service with lesser opportunities for being corrupt, also it would give me an opportunity to represent my country on an international platform….Some blabbing here
Chairman: What can we do to portray a softer image of Pakistan to the international community?

A few cross questions here he continually interrupted me yet I managed satisfying him without breaking under the pressure.
Discuss your extra curricular activities with me, all the things you have been doing all along…Also tell me you have written that you frequently visited Karachi, and a few foreign countries during your childhood why was that?

I told them and was thinking when the difficult questions would start, I got concerned k “Kahen aisa tou nahin k they don’t think im gud enuff for anything jbhi they are not discussing ajkal ka kuch bhi wid me”
And then I thought kash mein youn na he sochti…
Chairman: Has the government been able to create interprovincial harmony with the NFC? Would things change?
I discussed

Chairman: Ayesha you wrote we have been acquiring aid from America which could help us rebuild the infrastructures of our country, what do you say about the DRONE attacks which we are getting as a free offer with the AID?
He managed embarrassing me there for sure but it was a gud discussion on this one
thank u Ayesha Sohail sahb wud u like to ask Ayesha sumthing

Sohail Safdar Sb: Ayesha tell me about Ukraine…Current day happenings?
Struck by lightning I felt…….Oh I hated myself why had I even wished
Sorry Sir, I don’t quiet remember,
SS: Ill tell you…then he told me what was happening…
SS: From the stand I took….I don’t know why that stand posed an issue with every one:S, halank it was sumthing simple like not giving up the idea living in my country and going to earn a lot of legal pounds.
SS: So for the sake of discussion only you will not leave this country unless we give you FSP…
No sir I won’t if I had to I would have left by now, and I am not being impractical when I think that my ideals are worth being protected. My inner self tells me that I need not to be ashamed of my identity as a Pakistani and be cross interrogated at every airport separately. I wish to be recognized as a Pakistani when ever and where ever I go. FSP guarantees me that.
SS: Discuss with me the feelings of millions of people living abroad with me, would they agree with you or is it so that our morals are judged by how much we are able to earn and where we get it from?
I discussed it in detail with him…
SS: Tell me about the fall of the Mughal Empire?
Startled I was even then I remembered a few lectures from my Pakstudies book
SS: What according to you were the two biggest reasons for the fall of Mughal Empire?
Indulgence and Malpractices on parts of the rulers…
SS: Tell me some administrative reforms that the Mughal empire had undertaken,I ask you this because you had Indo Pak History as an optional.I guess he saw the disbelief on my face “I was thinking why is he asking me things about the Mughal Empire I never wrote I was fascinated by it’.
No sir I did not have it as optional…phew I felt relieved
SS: You don’t, oh then my mistake..
Thank you Ayesha

Asif Shah Sahb: Ayesha you have a terminal degree in Biochemistry with a specialization in Cancer Genetics would you please define Biochemisty for me?
ME: aaaaaaaaa….ummmmm (I forgot the definition would you all believe me) Sir t is bla blab la bla…
Ok Ayesha give me three examples from every day life where we use Biochemistry…I told him and he seemed ok but I guess he wanted me to speak more…
Ayesha what were the courses that you took during your terminal degree please name all of them semester wise
Joke right….I told him all those I could remember
Then he asked me what abbreviations like UNHCR, UNFPA, WFP, FAO, SALT, UNICEF, And UNIDO stood for…Thank god I knew all of these…
AS: Ayesha tell me about the history of UNHCR and what does it do?
I told him after which he asked me a similar question about World food program, in what conditions it worked and how it managed reaching out to emergency situations.
AS: Why do we need to develop international relations?
I said we live in a big world, a society kind of an environ, we would cease to exist if we think about living independently, we need to depend on neighboring countries for support and foster friendly terms with them.
AS: Define a society?
AS: Define a foreign policy and the salient features on which a foreign policy should be formed?
AS: You said you paint, why do you paint and what kind?
AS: Do you sell them? Why not?
AS: Define Upper and lower middle classes?
AS: Would you like becoming an affluent? Why not?


Saud Gauhar Sb: Ayesha what is zoology? (From my optionals)
SG: Give me everyday examples of applications of zoology?
SG: What are tube feet….I had forgotten
SG: Ok Ayesha tell me What Kind of training do we need to give our foreign servants at the academy before we deploy them as diplomats.
SG: What are the essential qualities of a Diplomat?
SG: What is it with the Green passport ie our passport, when ever we Pakistanis put it an international counter the Immigration officals look at us from top to toe?
SG: What do you say about the government nowadays?

Thank you Ayesha, I hope you have a pleasant day..I thanked them and left the room…
Now I tried telling you guys the maximum that I remembered and I am sorry for being late in uploading it. Do pray for me also…God bless all of you…

@ Abdullah
I know you guys were waiting like I waited for Safdar bhai’s interview but my DSL seemed to have an ever ending problem since last night…

@ tahira
I really don’t know how I performed dear but I feel that all except SAUD Sahb seemed satisfied with me…

__________________
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thnks fr sharin ur xperience. May Allah fulfill all ur dreams.
again the same question i askd earlier but dis tym from final intrview prospective.
did they checked ur documents other than ur basic academic records. I mean certificates related 2 all ur Xtracurricular achievements.

__________________
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

@ S ranjha

They didnot, they didnt even let us take our hand bags etc inside the interview room so there is really no need to worry about documents which you dont have....

__________________
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

God bless u Sardonic.
Dear iwant to take my masters thesis along in viva. am i allowed to and if yes should i.need ur suggestion.

__________________
Regards

@ ayesha

Dear I dont feel k there is a need for taking it along, not because u shudnt but because they are actually not going through any other document except for our degrees/ educational certificates that made us eligible for the papers..It would only be a carrying hassle nothing else...Baki the decision rests with you obviously..God bless.amen

__________________
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

@ All.

During my interview there was no cross-questioning. Only one person was asking questions at a time while others were just watching, but as Sardonic has mentioned that during her interview there was cross-questioning as well. So what does this mean?

__________________
CSS 2009, 2010, 2011 Qualifier

@ shallowwater

dear i have heard from seniors that cross questioning implies that either
the psychologist has reported that candidate is anxiety prone so the panel wants to observe it and how the candidate handle the situation.

secondly counter questioning is considered to be a good omen for candidate as they only ask these questions to very good candidates.

this may hold true or not depends on the panel members as this time whole panel is new.