CSS English Essay Past Paper 2026

Instructions specific to this paper

• Prepare an outline and write a comprehensive essay (2500 – 3000 words) on any one of the

Part-II questions

1. Q. 1

   Youth Bulge: a demographic dividend or a demographic bomb?

2. Q. 2

   Local Government System: the missing link in Pakistan's governance structure.

3. Q. 3

   Cyber Security as the new national security frontier.

4. Q. 4

   PAKISTAN Emerging Multipolar World Order: opportunities and risks for Pakistan.

5. Q. 5

   The one who controls the sea, rules the world.

6. Q. 6

   There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.

7. Q. 7

   Revitalising agriculture sector of Pakistan.

8. Q. 8

   Countering the growing menace of beggary.

9. Q. 9

   Politicisation of sports - a new challenge.

10. Q. 10

    Nations have no permanent friends and enemies, they have only permanent interests.

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• Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
• All the parts (if any) of each question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
• Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the question paper.
• No page/space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of the Answer Book must be crossed.
• Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.