Current Affairs Past Paper 2020

Water, terror financing and Kashmir pressure points mark the Current Affairs past paper 2020. Q.2 links global climate change to the water resources of Pakistan and asks how it will affect harmony between the provinces. Q.3 asks why the Financial Action Task Force placed Pakistan on its Grey List, what that listing implies, and which measures can take the country off it. Q.4 sets out the policy choices open to Pakistan under the lockdown in Indian Occupied Kashmir and asks what Pakistan can realistically do for the Kashmiri people. Q.5 maps the strategic contours of the Indo-US partnership and its impact on Pakistan-US and Pakistan-China relations. Q.6 widens the lens to the Indo-Pacific and defines the interests and roles of the US, China, India, Japan and Australia inside it. Q.7 tests the role of the OIC, the Arab League and the GCC in the crises of the Middle East. Q.8 asks what future globalism and multilateralism hold as world alignments shift.

What this paper contains

  • This file carries Part-II (the descriptive part) of the paper.
  • Part-II — attempt four questions from Q.2–Q.8; each question carries 20 marks (Part-I holds the 20 MCQs, per the printed header)
  • Q.2 — Climate change and the water resources of Pakistan; effects on inter-provincial harmony
  • Q.3 — The FATF Grey List: why Pakistan was placed on it, the implications, and the exit measures
  • Q.4 — Kashmir under lockdown: policy choices for Pakistan; relief for the Kashmiri people
  • Q.5 — The Indo-US partnership: impact on Pakistan-US and Pakistan-China relations
  • Q.6 — Strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific: interests and roles of the US, China, India, Japan and Australia
  • Q.7 — The OIC, the Arab League and the GCC in Middle East crises and conflicts
  • Q.8 — The future of globalism and multilateralism under changing global alignments
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