PAPER: CURRENT AFFAIRS (100 MARKS)

Syllabus for CSS 2022 prepared by Omar Shahkar

 Relations/Foreign Policy: 
1- Pak US relations
2- Pak Russia Relations
3- Pak Afghanistan Relations
4- Foreign Policy of Pakistan
(Cover the relations from the aspects of history, current scenario and policy
options for Pakistan)

 International Organizations:
1- SCO
2- OIC
3- BRICS

 Global Issues:
1- BRI (Belt and Road Initiative) (Includes CPEC as well)
2- Russia Ukraine Crisis
---Reasons behind attack
---Russia’s objectives
---Impacts on globe
---Solutions
3- The Afghanistan conundrum
---------Afghan Peace Process
---------Hasty US Withdrawal
--------- US withdrawal from Afghanistan and implications for Pakistan
----------Challenges for Afghan gov
---------Can the Taliban Govern?
---------Afghanistan & regional integration
4- Russia’s global Ring super structure
5- Made in China policy 2025
6-RPEC
7-International security & its impacts on national security
8-Global energy politics
9-Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
-----History
-----Objectives
-----Economic framework of QUAD
10- Covid 19 & its implications on
 the world
11- FATF & Pakistan
12- The China-Iran-Russia
Triangle: Alternative World
Order?
13- The global order and Pakistan
14- India’s foreign policy: A
challenge for Pakistan
15- AUKUS
16- US China Issues
--------Trade War
--------Military Engagements in Indo Pacific
--------Hong Kong crisis
--------China on the offensive
17-Indo Pacific region
------China & Solomon Islands treaty
-----String of Pearls
-----Diamond of Necklace
-----South China Sea Conflict
-----East China Sea Conflict
18- The TAIWAN crisis
19- Indo US Nexus
-------2+2 Nuclear Deal
-------Co-operation in Indo Pacific
-------Implications on the region & Pakistan
20- China Iran deal
-------India out, China in
-------Implications on the region & global order
21- Sri Lankan Crisis
22- Middle East crisis
23-World moving from vertical command & control to horizontal connect
& collaboration
24- Politics on climate change
25- Is US still the world leader?

NOTE: The syllabus of current affairs increase with the passage

of time due to further events.
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