Syllabus CURRENT AFFAIRS (100 MARKS)

Candidates will be expected to display such general knowledge of history, politics and International Affairs, as deemed necessary to interpret current affairs.

• Pakistan’s Domestic Affairs (20 marks)

• Political

• Economic

• Social

1. Pakistan’s External Affairs (40 marks)

• Pakistan’s relations with its Neighbors (India, China, Afghanistan, Russia)

• Pakistan’s relations with the Muslim World (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey)

• Pakistan’s relations with the United States

• Pakistan’s relations with Regional and International Organizations (UN, SAARC, ECO, OIC, WTO, GCC)

• Global Issues (40 marks)

• International Security

• International Political Economy

• Human Rights

• Environment: Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord

• Population: world population trends, world population policies

• Terrorism and Counter Terrorism

• Global Energy Politics

• Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Security

• Nuclear Politics in South Asia

• International Trade (Doha Development Round and Bali Package)

• Cooperation and Competition in Arabian Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

• Millennium Development Goals, Current Status

• Globalization

• Middle East Crisis

• Kashmir Issue

• Palestine Issue

Suggested Readings
1. Pakistan Foreign Policy 1947-2005:Concise History, 2011 By Abdul Sattar

2. Issue in Pakistan’s Economy, 2010 By Akbar S. Zaidi

3. Pakistan: A Hard Country, 2012 By Anatol Lieven

4. Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th ed., Baxter, Malik, Kennedy & Oberst, 2009

5. Introduction to International Political Economy, 2010 By David Balaam & Bradford Dillman

6. International Organization (Second Edition) Volker Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl and Andress Kruck 2012
7. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Mohamed Elbaradei By Treacherous Times (2011)

8. International Relations, 2012 Joshua Goldstein

9. World Politics: Trends & Transformation, Kegley & Blanton 2014-2015

10. Pakistan Beyond the Crisis, 2011 Maleeha Lodhi

11. Globalization in Question, 2009 Paul Hirst

12. International Political Economy: Interests & Thomas Oatley Institutions in the Global Economy, 2010

13. Politics and Change in the Middle East, 10th Ed. By Andersen, Seibert, and Wagner, Pearson, 2012
14. Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Feroz Khan Bomb, (2012)

15. Pakistan and World Affairs Shamshad Ahmad (Edition-2015)

16. World Times Magazine …