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Freedom of Speech should have Limitations | Essay Material for CSS

Freedom of Speech should have Limitations | CSS Essay Material

When we talk about rights and freedom, instead of going into the specified, limited, to the point reasons and responsibilities, both terms are taken into a very broader aspect which too can create, chaos, disharmony, hatred, racism and many more small but yet important issues. There is a very common and general rule of rights and freedom; “my right stops when it infringes upon your rights”. Usually both these terms are taken into one sense but when we look closely, both these terms are so way part. What is a right? A right is fair, equitable, upright, honorable, honest, moral ethical, lawful and legal well-being and practice of an individual. Whereas when you talk about freedom it represents a whole of a lot and it’s independent living.

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the “Five Ps”

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the “Five Ps”

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the “Five Ps”

After the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, the United Nations General Assembly passed the resolution, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” There are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) that are geared towards improving the world and the lives of its inhabitants, which can be categorised into the “five Ps”; people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership.

People

The SGDs on ending poverty, hunger, allowing for individuals to have good health and well-being, the provision of quality education, access to clean water and sanitation and striving for gender equality can all be included in the broad ambit of ‘people’. Improving the lives of people, as a collective and on an individual level, is one of the central focuses of the UN in the next ten years. It is hoped that by 2030, all member states will have made significant changes to provide people with these basic necessities. Beyond ending poverty and hunger, ensuring dignity and equality must also take precedence moving forward, Sustainable Development.

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Good Governance | CSS Essay Material

Good Governance | CSS Essay Material

Introduction:

Governance implies control, direction, and rule with authority or administers laws to govern a system to achieve certain objectives. Good Governance implies running administration according to the defined laws to achieve the objective of promoting the welfare of the people in a democratic oriented order. Bad governance means departing from the norms of laws and subjecting system of administration to whims, idiosyncrasies of the rulers to achieve certain ulterior motives at the cost of national interests.

The hallmark of great nations is that they learn from their past experience to become wiser in conducting their current and future affairs. Another distinctive feature of such nations is that they try to understand the emerging long-term trends to identify new challenges, and plan for the future so as to take maximum advantage of the opportunities and avoid the pitfalls that may lie ahead.

On the other hand, the nations on the trajectory of decay and ultimate oblivion neither learn from the past nor have the inclination to look ahead into the future to plan for their security, progress and welfare. All it lacks in the context of Pakistan; socially, economically and politically as well.

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Foreign Aid and Pakistan’s Economic Condition | CSS Essay Material

Foreign Aid and Pakistan's Economic Condition CSS Essay Material

Foreign Aid and Pakistan’s Economic Condition | CSS Essay Material

Five ways to improve development assistance

So much is written and said about foreign aid that it has become difficult to contribute meaningfully to the debate about whether it is effective. But if we are charting our fates as citizens of a crowded, fragile planet, then any honest assessment must conclude that progress has been made, whether in terms of child survival or literacy or access to basic sanitation. Still, profound social disparities exist; so too does extreme poverty. And the prospects of those living on less than two dollars a day remain grim. With the stakes as high as they are, the need to challenge the assumptions we make about aid is paramount. Myths and mystifications about aid persist. Whether we speak of feedback loops or best practices — or, perhaps, simply better practices — we have a long way to go.

Despite agreements on aid effectiveness reached in Rome, Paris, Accra, and Busan over the last decade, 80 percent of aid from major bilateral and multilateral donors to fragile countries still bypasses the systems of local public institutions. But the aspiration to improve the lives of those living in extreme poverty through better public health, public education, and public works by definition requires public-sector capacity.

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Judicial Activism in Pakistan | CSS Essay Material

Judicial Activism in Pakistan | CSS Essay Material

Judicial activism’s history and scope

Certain legal circles are showing concerns over the proactive role our judiciary is playing in restoring fundamental rights to the common man, and taking cognizance of corrupt practices in institutions of public importance. This proactive role which is termed as judicial activism has been defined in Black’s Law Dictionary as, “a philosophy of law-making whereby judges allow their personal views about public policy, among other factors, to guide their decisions.” Thus according to them any order or decision which is coloured by a judge’s subjective mind rather than the literal application of law would amount to a legal aberration and is therefore likely to cause miscarriage of justice. But the fact remains that when a judge is engaged in the task of sifting truth from falsehood, his objective and subjective faculties are simultaneously at work, and in respect of most of the questions before him, the bare literal application of law would neither be adequate nor desirable.

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Environmental Challenges in Pakistan | CSS Essay Material

Environmental Challenges in Pakistan | CSS Essay Material

Environmental Challenges in Pakistan | CSS Essay Material

Environmental issues in Pakistan have been disturbing the balance between economic development and environmental protection

As a big importer of renewable natural resources and a large consumer of fossil fuels, Pakistan’s Ministry of Environment takes responsibility to conserve and protect the environment; however unfortunately there are many challenges. While we grow more than 8 percent in GDP and create economic opportunities, this increase adds growing stress and implications on the environment. The constant growth in population is another massive challenge. As we grow economically, we have to decide that we achieve a better quality of life. At the end of the day, when we have more money but our quality of life suffers and we can’t breathe and drink pure water; then it is not worth it.

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The Hunger Challenge | CSS Essay Material

The Hunger Challenge - CSS Essay Material

Recent studies reveal rising inflation and unemployment creating high misery for people. Fuelled by these adverse reports, food insecurity, poverty and malnutrition problems had again momentarily hit national headlines, as they periodically do before being quickly displaced by political scandals.

Measuring these problems in Pakistan is made difficult by competing concepts, definitions and measurement approaches. Food security represents “regular access to sufficient and affordable nutritious food”. The 2011 National Nutritional Survey estimated nearly 60pc Pakistanis to be food insecure. Around 30pc had never experienced hunger but were not consuming quality nutritious food. In almost 20pc families, adults experienced some hunger.

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Important Essays for CSS 2020 Examination by Sir Ghafoor Tahir

Important Essays for CSS 2020 Examination by Sir Ghafoor Tahir

Important Essays for CSS 2020 Examination

by Sir Ghafoor Tahir
(Senior Most Mentor for CSS English Essays)

1. Global Warming: The Clock is Ticking!

2. Water Scarcity in Pakistan-A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism.

3. More Depravity is the Root Cause of Poverty.

4. Socio-Economic Challenges Faced by Pakistan.

5. Education Makes a People Easy to Lead, But Difficult to Drive, Easy to Govern, But Impossible to Enslave.

6. Foreign Aid – Is It a Blessing or a Curse?

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Parliamentary vs Presidential | (Pakistan’s Domestic Affairs)

Parliamentary vs Presidential | (Pakistan's Domestic Affairs)

By: Syed Khawar Mehdi

IN over 70 years of Pakistan’s existence, our nation has been embroiled politically due to the ill-advised rabble-rousing tempest of Westminsterian democracy. Ill-chosen by the ruling establishment of the time and their obsession with everything British, and cunningly sustained to date as it diligently serves the well-ingrained vested interests of the rulers more than the ruled, it continues to inflict insult on the creativity, intellect and drive of the people with criminal disregard for the temporally pervasive crisis in governance, all in the name of the much-revered parliamentary system adopted from Westminster.

The Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, though it delivers effectively in England and is fervently admired in Pakistan, is intrinsically ill-suited to the prevailing realities of this land, its people and their needs. Instead, it perniciously and effectively serves political mafias, power brokers and feudal cliques — only to maintain their stranglehold on power without interruption. By no account does the failure of parliamentary democracy justify the military’s historical intrusions and violations, but a weak and unstable system invites all kinds of interference and does not really enjoy the honourable sanctum that its promoters and patrons so intuitively claim when facing critique and censure.

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Middle East peace plan: What US gets out of it

Middle East peace plan: What US gets out of it

The Palestinians have roundly rejected Donald Trump’s Middle East proposal, feeling the cards are stacked against them.

The plan recognises and legitimises the Jewish settlements built on occupied Palestinian territory, which are regarded as illegal under international law – although Israel disputes this.

It would see Israel annex large swathes of the most fertile Palestinian land and gives complete security control of the West Bank to Israel in any future “state”. Those are just the headlines, and none are acceptable to the Palestinians.

Before announcing the proposal on Tuesday, Mr Trump even intimated that he knew Palestinian leaders would feel that way and would reject it.

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