CSS 2023 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.
• The one who uses force is afraid of reasoning.
• Not all recycling projects are cost effective.
• The fool speaks, and the wise listens.
• A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
• Online learning is not only convenient but often more effective than traditional classroom instruction.
• To encourage healthy eating, higher taxes should be imposed on soft drinks and junk food.
• People have become overly dependent on technology.
• Both parents should assume equal responsibility in raising a child.
• Boys will be boy

CSS 2022 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• An analysis of the concept of globalization of markets.
• Digital democracy: social media and political participation.
• Global trade and trade policies of China.
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
• Global politics and international relations.
• The controversial issues of feminism in contemporary women’s rights movements.
• World food systems: the economics of agriculture.
• Is there such a thing as ethical consumerism?
• Human development and economic sustainability.
• How is terrorism and its perception shaped by the Mass Media?

CSS 2021 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• “Do not waste water even if you were at a running stream”.
• Meaning purposive education.
• COVID-19: A wake up call for Pakistani researchers.
• Human inventions move the societies backward.
• Universal human equality is utopic.
• Bureaucracy doldrums.
• Gender equality: A popular slogan.
• Pros and cons of globalization.
• Intercultural communication is panacea to avoid 3rd world war.
• “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed”.

CSS 2020 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• Do we really need literature in our lives?
• Women universities as agents of change.
• Pakistan and the future of Kashmir cause.
• Polarized politics: the issues and challenges of democracy in Pakistan.
• Global power dynamics and Pakistan’s foreign policy.
• Pakistan’s informal economy: the way forward.
• Promoting tourism in Pakistan: opportunities and challenges.
• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
• Is Pakistan ready for digital revolution?
• IMF bailouts: roads to stability or recipes for disaster.

CSS 2019 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• Real development should transform people’s lives, not just economic statistics.
• Higher Education in Pakistan: Ills and Remedies.
• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
• China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and its Socio-economic Implications for the
• Region and the World.
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life!
• The Emerging Power of Social Media: Prospects and Problems.
• In the fight against terrorism and corruption, it is imperative not to compromise human
• rights and civil liberties.
• The threat of Global Warming and the ways to counter it.
• Will “Rule of law” always remain an impracticable myth in our country?
• Democracy in Pakistan: Hopes and Hurdles.

CSS 2018 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• Real development should transform people’s lives, not just economic statistics.
• Higher Education in Pakistan: Ills and Remedies.
• Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
• China – Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and its Socio-economic Implications for the
• Region and the World.
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life!
• The Emerging Power of Social Media: Prospects and Problems.
• In the fight against terrorism and corruption, it is imperative not to compromise human
• rights and civil liberties.
• The threat of Global Warming and the ways to counter it.
• Will “Rule of law” always remain an impracticable myth in our country?
• Democracy in Pakistan: Hopes and Hurdles.

CSS 2017 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• Is colonial mentality impeding Pakistan’s progress?
• Brexit means globalization is the rhetoric of the privileged, and capitalism will return
• ferociously as ever.
• More and more International military engagements by the United Nations; is the world
• moving towards peace?
• Modernity is an unending project.
• Feminism is not really a Third World issue.
• Literature is a lonely planet of idealists.
• Being a minority is a fate no one wants. Can nationalism be really inclusive?
• Ideologies thrive on notions of resistance, yet change is a simulation.
• Are modern wars not holy wars?
• Life without controversy is no life. But why one should not choose the safe haven of
• conformism?

CSS 2016 ESSAY PAST PAPERS

• World as a global village: Learning to live together.
• We have to learn to be our own best friends, because we fall too easily into the trap
• of being our own worst enemies.
• Water crisis and national unity.
• The place of Urdu in Pakistan and Supreme Court’s ruling on making Urdu the official
• language of the country.
• Crisis of good governance in Pakistan: Need for reforms and institution building.
• Promotion of tax culture in Pakistan: Perspective, prospects and challenges.
• Gender equality is a myth!
• The creation of new provinces in Pakistan: Implications for an integrated country.
• Does foreign aid help to achieve economic stability?
• Frailty, thy name is woman.