English Essay (Compulsory) (Total Marks-l00)

Candidates will be required to write one or more Essay in English. A wide choice of topics
will be given. Candidates are expected to reflect comprehensive and research based
knowledge on a selected topic. Candidates articulation, expression and technical treatment
of the style of English Essay writing will be examined
ENGLISH (PRECIS & COMPOSITION) Compulsory (Total Marks-l00)

The examination in this subject will be based upon a paper carrying 100 marks to Test the
candidates abilities to handle Precis Writing, Reading Comprehension, Sentence
Structuring, Translation, Grammar and Vocabulary, etc.
I. Precis Writing (20 marks)
A careful selected passage with an orientation of generic understanding and enough
flexibility for compression shall be given for prcising and suggesting an appropriate title.
Out of the total 20 marks allocated to this question, 15 shall go to prcising the text and 5 to
suggesting the title.
II. Reading Comprehension (20 marks)
A carefully selected passage that is rich in substance but not very technical or disciplinespecific shall be given, followed by five questions, each carrying 4 marks.
III. Grammar and Vocabulary (20 marks)
Correct usage of Tense, Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Punctuation, Phrasal Verbs,
Synonyms and Antonyms etc.
IV. Sentence Correction (10 marks)
The sentences shall be given each having a clear structural flaw in terms of grammar or
punctuation. The candidates shall be asked to rewrite them with really needed correction
only, without making unnecessary alterations. No two or more sentence should have exactly
the same problem, and 2-3 sentences shall be based on correction of punctuation marks.
V. Grouping of Words (10 marks)
A random list of twenty words of moderate standard (neither very easy nor utterly
unfamiliar) shall be given, to be grouped by the candidates in pairs of those having similar
or opposite meaning, as may be clearly directed in the question.
VI. Pairs of Words (10 marks)
Ten pairs shall be given of seemingly similar words with different meanings, generally
confused in communication, for bringing out the difference in meaning of any five of them
by first explaining them in parenthesis and then using them in sentences.
VII. Translation (10 marks)
Ten short Urdu sentences involving structural composition, significant terms and
figurative/idiomatic expressions shall be given, to be accurately translated into English.

Suggested Readings
Title
English Grammar in Use
Practical English Usage
The Little, Brown Handbook
A University English Grammar
Write Better, Speak Better
Modern English in Action

Author
Raymond Murphy (Cambridge
University Press).
M.Swan (Oxford University Press).
H. Ramsey Flower & Jane Aaron
(The Little, Brown & Co; Harper
Collins.)
R. Quirk & S. Greenbaum (ELBS;
Longmans)
Readers Digest Association.
Henry Christ (D.C. Heath & Co.)

Current Affairs (COMPULSORY) (Marks- -100)

Candidates will be expected to display such general knowledge of history, politics and
International Affairs, as deemed necessary to interpret current affairs.
I. Pakistan's Domestic Affairs (20 marks)

Political

Economic

Social

II. Pakistan's External Affairs (40 marks)

Pakistans relations with its Neighbors (India, China, Afghanistan, Russia)

Pakistans relations with the Muslim World (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia,
Turkey)

Pakistans relations with the United States

Pakistans relations with Regional and International Organizations (UN, SAARC,

ECO, OIC, WTO, CW)

III. 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

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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

Pakistan Foreign Policy 1947-2005: A Concise History, 2011

Issue in Pakistans Economy, 2010
Pakistan: A Hard Country, 2012

Abdul Sattar
Akbar S. Zaidi
Anatol Lieven
Baxter, Malik, Kennedy &
Oberst,

Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th ed., 2009

Introduction to International Political Economy, 2010

International Organization (Second Edition) 2012
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times (2011)
International Relations, 2012
World Politics: Trends & Transformation, 2011
Pakistan Beyond the Crisis, 2011
Globalization in Question, 2009
International Political Economy: Interests & Institutions in the Global
Economy, 2010

David Balaam & Bradford

Dillman
Volker Rittberger,
Bernhard Zangl and
Andress Kruck
Mohamed Elbaradei
Joshua Goldstein
Kegley & Blanton
Maleeha Lodhi
Paul Hirst
Thomas Oatley
Andersen, Seibert, and
Wagner
Ahmed, V., Rashid Ahmed

Politics and Change in the Middle East, 10th Ed., Pearson, 2012
The Management of Pakistan's economy 1947 to 1982

Pakistan Affairs (Compulsory)

(Marks-100)

I. Ideology of Pakistan ----- definition and elucidation, historical aspects: Muslim rule in the
Sub-continent, its downfall and efforts for Renaissance. Movements for reforms -- Shaikh
Ahmad Sarhindi, Shah Waliullah, Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed, Aligarh, Deoband, Nadwah,
and other educational institutions ------- Sindh Madrassah and Islamia College Peshawae.
Ideology of Pakistan in the light of Speeches and statements of Allama Iqbal and Quaid i
Azam
Muhammad
Ali
Jinnah.
II. Land and people of Pakistan ------- Geography, Society, Natural resources,
Agriculture, Industry and education with reference to characteristics, trends and problems.
III.

Pakistan

and

Changing

Regional

Apparatus

IV. Nuclear Program of Pakistan, its Safety and Security; International Concerns
V. Regional Economic Cooperation (SAARC,ECO,SCO) and the Role of Pakistan
VI.
VII.

Civil-Military
Economic

Relations
Challenges

in
in

Pakistan
Pakistan

VIII. Non-Traditional Security Threats in Pakistan: Role of Non-State Actors

IX.

Pakistans

Role

X.

in

the

Region

Palestine

Issue

XI. Changing Security Dynamics for Pakistan: Challenges to National Security of Pakistan
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.

Political
Pakistan

and

Foreign

Policy

Evolution

XVI.
XVII.

Evolution

of

Ethnic
Hydro

Politics

US

War

of

Water

XVIII.

Pakistans

XIX.

Challenges

in

Domestic

9/11

in

Pakistan

and

Integration
Regional

Problems

Context
Interest

to

Sovereignty

Energy

XXI.

Pakistans

Relations

with

Neighbors

and

India

Relations

XXIII.

Post

National

Pakistans

Pakistan

Terror

National

XX.

XXII.

on

System

and
Issues

1971

Pakistan

Democratic
Issues

Since

and

their

Effects

excluding

India

Since

1947

Kashmir

Issue

XXIV. The war in Afghanistan since 1979 and its impact on, and challenges to Pakistan, in
the
Post
2014
era.
XXV.

Proxy

Wars:

Role

of

External

Elements

XXVI. Economic Conditions of Pakistan, the Most Recent Economic Survey, the Previous
and Current Budgets, and the Problems and Performance of Major Sectors of Economy.
XXVII. The Recent Constitutional and Legal Debates, the Latest Constitutional
Amendments and Important Legislations, Legal Cases and the Role of Higher Courts.
XXVIII. The Prevailing Social Problems of Pakistan and the Strategies to Deal with Them,
Poverty, Education, Health and Sanitation

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Suggested Readings

Title
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and
Pakistan
Labor, Democratization and Development in India and
Pakistan
Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The
Compound Crisis in 1990

Author

Adeney, Katharine. , New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Candland, Christopher, New York:
Routledge, 2007
Chari, P.R. at al, New York: Routledge,
2003
Cohen Stephen P. et al. Washington:
The Future of Pakistan.
Brookings Institute Press, 2011
Hussian, Zahid. New York: I.B.Tauris,
Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
2007
Jalal, Aisha and Bose, Sugata. New
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
York: Routledge, 1998
Jalal, Aisha, Cambridge: Cambridge
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
University Press, 1995
Lyon, Peter. California: ABC-CLIO,
Conflict Between India and Pakistan: an Encyclopedia
2008
Mass, Leslie Noyes. Plymouth: Rowman
Back to Pakistan: A Fifty Year Journey.
& Littlefield Publishers, 2011
Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in
Newberg, Paula R. Cambridge:
Pakistan
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Qureshi, Atiff. London: Epic Press,
Pakistan: Manifest Destiny.
2009.
Riedel, Bruce. Deadly Embrace:
Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad
Washington: Brookings Institute Press,
2011
Schofield, Victoria. New York:
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War
I.B.Tauria, 2003
Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed
Shah, Niaz A. New York: Routledge,
Conflict in Pakistan
2011
Shaikh, Farzana. New York: Colombia
Making Sense of Pakistan.
University Press, 2009
Wynbrandt, James. New York: Infobase
A Brief History of Pakistan.
Publishing, 2009

Powering Pakistan: Meetings Pakistan Energy Needs in

Robert M. Hathaway and Michael
21st Century
Gugelman
Pakistans Energy Sector: From Crisis to Crisis - Breaking
Zaid Alahdad
the Chain

Pakistan Affairs (Compulsory)

(Marks-100)

I. Ideology of Pakistan ----- definition and elucidation, historical aspects: Muslim rule in the
Sub-continent, its downfall and efforts for Renaissance. Movements for reforms -- Shaikh
Ahmad Sarhindi, Shah Waliullah, Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed, Aligarh, Deoband, Nadwah,
and other educational institutions ------- Sindh Madrassah and Islamia College Peshawae.
Ideology of Pakistan in the light of Speeches and statements of Allama Iqbal and Quaid i
Azam
Muhammad
Ali
Jinnah.
II. Land and people of Pakistan ------- Geography, Society, Natural resources,
Agriculture, Industry and education with reference to characteristics, trends and problems.
III.

Pakistan

and

Changing

Regional

Apparatus

IV. Nuclear Program of Pakistan, its Safety and Security; International Concerns
V. Regional Economic Cooperation (SAARC,ECO,SCO) and the Role of Pakistan
VI.
VII.

Civil-Military

Relations

Economic

in

Challenges

in

Pakistan
Pakistan

VIII. Non-Traditional Security Threats in Pakistan: Role of Non-State Actors

IX.

Pakistans

Role

X.

in

the

Region

Palestine

Issue

XI. Changing Security Dynamics for Pakistan: Challenges to National Security of Pakistan
XII.
XIII.

Political
Pakistan

Evolution
and

US

Since
War

1971
on

Terror

XIV.
XV.

Foreign
Evolution

XVI.
XVII.

Policy
of

Ethnic
Hydro

Politics

of
Democratic

Issues
;

Pakistan

Water

XVIII.

Pakistans

XIX.

Challenges

System

and
Issues

in

Domestic

Pakistan

and

Integration
Regional

Problems

Context
Interest

to

Sovereignty

Energy

XXI.

Pakistans

Relations

with

Neighbors

and

India

Relations

XXIII.

in

National

Pakistans

Pakistan

9/11

National

XX.

XXII.

Post

and

their

Effects

excluding

India

Since

1947

Kashmir

Issue

XXIV. The war in Afghanistan since 1979 and its impact on, and challenges to Pakistan, in
the
Post
2014
era.
XXV.

Proxy

Wars:

Role

of

External

Elements

XXVI. Economic Conditions of Pakistan, the Most Recent Economic Survey, the Previous
and Current Budgets, and the Problems and Performance of Major Sectors of Economy.
XXVII. The Recent Constitutional and Legal Debates, the Latest Constitutional
Amendments and Important Legislations, Legal Cases and the Role of Higher Courts.
XXVIII. The Prevailing Social Problems of Pakistan and the Strategies to Deal with Them,
Poverty, Education, Health and Sanitation

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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and

Pakistan

Adeney, Katharine. , New York:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Labor, Democratization and Development in India and

Pakistan
Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The
Compound Crisis in 1990

Candland, Christopher, New York:

Routledge, 2007
Chari, P.R. at al, New York: Routledge,
2003
Cohen Stephen P. et al. Washington:
The Future of Pakistan.
Brookings Institute Press, 2011
Hussian, Zahid. New York: I.B.Tauris,
Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
2007
Jalal, Aisha and Bose, Sugata. New
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy
York: Routledge, 1998
Jalal, Aisha, Cambridge: Cambridge
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
University Press, 1995
Lyon, Peter. California: ABC-CLIO,
Conflict Between India and Pakistan: an Encyclopedia
2008
Mass, Leslie Noyes. Plymouth: Rowman
Back to Pakistan: A Fifty Year Journey.
& Littlefield Publishers, 2011
Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in
Newberg, Paula R. Cambridge:
Pakistan
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Qureshi, Atiff. London: Epic Press,
Pakistan: Manifest Destiny.
2009.
Riedel, Bruce. Deadly Embrace:
Pakistan, America, and the Future of Global Jihad
Washington: Brookings Institute Press,
2011
Schofield, Victoria. New York:
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War
I.B.Tauria, 2003
Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed
Shah, Niaz A. New York: Routledge,
Conflict in Pakistan
2011
Shaikh, Farzana. New York: Colombia
Making Sense of Pakistan.
University Press, 2009
Wynbrandt, James. New York: Infobase
A Brief History of Pakistan.
Publishing, 2009
Powering Pakistan: Meetings Pakistan Energy Needs in
Robert M. Hathaway and Michael
21st Century
Gugelman
Pakistans Energy Sector: From Crisis to Crisis - Breaking
Zaid Alahdad
the Chain

Business Administration (Total Marks - 100)

Candidates will he asked to attempt total Five questions including one compulsory
(objective type) question. They will attempt at least one question (out of two) from each
part. Short note within the question (with-omit choice) can also he given.
PART-I

MANAGEMENT
1. Nature And Scope of Management-Different Schools of thought.
2. Planning - Planning process; Planning tools; Change Management.
3. Organisation - Type of Organisation; Theory of Organisation; Group dynamics ;
Staffing.
4. Actuating-Leading; Approaches to Leadership-Coordinating: Communicating;
Motivating.
5. Controlling-Budgetary Control; Budgetary process.
PART-II
PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING
1. An overview of Marketing.
2. Marketing's Role in Society and inside a Firm.
3. Environment of Marketing.
4. Strategic Planning and Marketing.
5. Marketing Mix i.e. Product, Pricing, Place (Distribution, Channels), Wholesaling,
Retailing, Sales Promotion (Advertising, Public Relations).
6. Global Marketing.
PART-III
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Nature and Scope of Financial Management
2. Interpretation of Financial Statement-Ratio analysis, Trend analysis-Common size
analysis.
3. Time Value of Money-Concept of TVM; Net Present Value; Pay Back period;
Internal rate of return.
4. Working Capital Management - Cash Management; Receivable Management;
Inventory Management.
5. Port Folio Management-Types of Investment; Financial Securities; Diversification

of Risk.
6. Accounting - Accounting Cycles, Preparation of Financial Statements; Balance
Sheet, Income Statement.

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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

Management
The New Management
Management
Management
Management
Marketing Management
Fundamentals of Marketing
Marketing
Marketing
Putting Total Quality Management at Work
Fundamentals of Financial Management
Essentials of Managerial Finance
Financial Management

Robins Stephen P.
Robert M. Fulmer
Horold Koontz and Heinz Weihrich
James A. F. Stoner and Charles Wanke
Arthur G. Bedeian
Philip Kotler
William J. Stanton
Joel R. Evans
Courtland L. Bovee
Marshal Sashkin and Kenneth J. Kiser
Van Horn
J. Fred Weston, Eugene & Brigham
Gitt Man

Political Science Total Marks-200

PAPER - I (Marks-100 )

PART 'A'
Political Theory
1. Western Political Thought

Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau,

Bentham, Mill, Marx, Lenin, Mao
2. Muslim Political Thought
AI-Farabi, Al-Mawardi, Nizam-ul-Mulik Tusi, Al-Ghazali, Ibn-I-Khaldun,
Iqbal
Part 'B'
1. The nature and emergence of Modern state system, Islamic concept of state.
2. Political concepts, Sovereignty, Law, Liberty, Equality, Rights and Duties.
3. Political Dynamics: Public Opinion, Propaganda, Political Parties, Pressure
Groups.
4. Political Institutions: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary. Political Elites, Civil
and Military Bureaucracy.
5. Forms of Government: Monarchy, Democracy. Dictatorship Unitary and
Federal, Presidential and Parliamentary
6. Totalitarianism: Fascism, Communism.
7. Local Self-government: Theory and Practice with special reference to
Pakistan.

PAPER-II (Marks - 100)

PART 'A'

Selected Political Systems: Nature and dynamics of major political institutions in

U.S.A., U.K., France and Former Soviet Union,

PART 'B'

Political Systems of developing countries: Turkey, Iran, India and China.

Rise of Muslim Nationalism in South Asia with special reference to the role of Sir

Syed Abmed Khan, lqbal and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

A comparative and critical analysis of the 1956, 1962, 1973 and 1985 Constitutions
of Pakistan.

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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

History of Muslim Philosophy

Constitutional Development in Pakistan
Comparative Politics; A World View
Contemporary Political Analysis
Government & Parliament: A Survey from the Inside
Government and Politics in Pakistan
History of Political Theory
History of Political Theories
Political Thought in Medieval Islam
Modern Islamic State
Political Thought in Perspective
Pattern of Government
Pakistan: A Political Study
Politics, Parties and Pressure Groups
Modern Political Systems: Asia
Politics in Pakistan: Nature and Direction of Change
Reflection on Government
South-East Asia Political System
The Political System of Pakistan
Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi, Published by Muhammad Ashraf,
Lahore, 1978
Nizam-ul-Mulk Tusi (Urdu), Karachi University 1995

M.M. Sharif
G.W. Choudhry
Almond & Powell
Garles Worth James
Herbert Morrison
Mushtaq Ahmed
George H. Sabine
William A. Dunning
Rosenthal
Rosenthal
William Edenstein
Samuel H. Beer & Adam B. Ullam
Keith Callard
V.O. Key Jr.
Roy, C. Macradis (ed)
Khalid Bin Sayeed
Earnest Barker
Lucian W. Pye
Khalid Bin Sayeed

Sociology
(Total Marks - 100)

Rizvi, S. Rizwan Ali

Prof. Dr. Rizwan Ali Rizvi

1. Individual, Culture and Society : Individual as a social product. The variety of social
forms. Methods of socialization, Ethnocentricism, Norms and Values, Cultural
Patterns, Varieties of sub-cultures.
2. Sociological Theory : The sociological perspectives- Evolutionary, order and
conflict, Evolutionary Theorists : Ibn-i-Khaldun Spencer and Tannis, Order
Theorists: August Comte, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Conflict Theorists : George
Hegel. Karl Mars. Lewis Coser, Mills.
3. Methods of Sociological Research: Research Design, Surveys, Participant
Observation. Experiments, Case Studies.
4. Social Interaction : Significance of social classes. Forms of social classes-Tribes.
Biradaris, Castes, Classes and Feudal system in Pakistan. Social Mobility-nature of
social mobility. Mobility determinants in Pakistan society, Social immobility.
Culture in poverty.
5. Social Control: Mechanisms of social control-internal and external means of social
control. Alienation, Integration-integrative pat terns in Pakistani Society.
6. Social and Cultural Change and Social Policy Processes of Social and Cultural
Change-discovery, invention, diffusion. Factors in the rate of social and culture
change, Incentives and inhibitions to social and cultural change in Pakistan Social
planning and directed social and cultural change.
7. Community: The rural community, Traditional Characteristics of rural life, The
urban community. Rural-Urban convergence, Urbanism, Future of cities in Pakistan.
8. Social Institutions: The nature and genesis of institutions, the process of institutions,
Functions and Trade of Social Institutions, Family, Religion, Educational, Economic
and Political Institutions.
9. Social Problems in Pakistan: Population Growth. Demographic Transition: Deviant
Behaviour, Institutionalised evasions, social conflicts, internal and international
Migration, Aging, Drug abuse, Prostitution. Smuggling, Illiteracy and Poverty.

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Suggested Readings
Title
Anthropology: The Study of Man

Author
Adamson Hoebel, E.

Pakistani Society
Contemporary Social Problems
Contemporary Sociological Theories
Family in Asia
Ibn-i-Khaldun: His Life and Works
Master of Sociological Thought
Pakistani Society
Sociology
Strategies in Social Research
Sociology; Role & Relationship
Social Problems
Social Change and History
Feudal System in Pakistan
The Sociology of Rural Life
The Sociology of Social Problems
The Sociology of Religion

Akbar Ahmed, S.
Robert K. Merton
Pitrim Sorokin
Man Singh Das & Pahos D. Bardis
M. Abdullah Enan
Lewis A. Coser
M. Iqbal Chaudhry
Ogburn & Nimkoff
Smith, H.W.
Everett K. Wilson
Jon. M. Shepard & Voss
Robert Nisbet

Nawab Haider Naqvi

Lynn Smith, T.
Horton & Leslie
Max Weber

History of Pakistan And India (Total Marks- 200)

PAPER - I (Marks-100)

712-1857 (Excluding arrival of European nations decline and fall of Muslim Rule)

Arrival of the Muslims in the sub-continent, foundation of Muslim Rule administrative system and reforms under the Sultans and the Mughals.

Structure of the Muslim society.

Industry, trade and commerce under the Muslim patronage. the Army. Financial
administration, Zakat. Ushr. Kharaj etc.

Administration of Justice - Sufis and Ulema - the Madrassahs and Maktabs - Auqaf

Art and architecture. literature, sports, dress-Muslim contribution to scientific

knowledge - Policy of the Muslim rules towards non-Muslims. The spirit and legacy
of Muslim civilization.
PAPER - II (Marks-100)

Part A: 1857-1947

1. Arrival of European nations-decline and fall of Muslim Rule, contributions of Shah

Wali Ullah, Syed Ahmed Shaheed and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan towards regeneration
of the Muslim - Hindu reform movements and anti-Muslim role of Hindu leaders.
2. Constitutional reforms of the British Government and growth of the Political
Parties-Indian National Congress. All India Muslim league Partition of Bengal.
Simla Deputation. Role of Nawab Mohsin-uI-MuIk. Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk.
3. Syed Ameer Ali, the Agha Khan and other Muslim leaders Lucknow pact: Khilafat
movement Contribution of Maulana Muhammad Ali, Allama Iqbal, Quaid-i-Azam
Muhammad All Jinnah for Muslim uplift and welfare.
4. Nehru report, Quaid-i-Azam's Fourteen Points. Allama Iqbal's Allahabad Address
1930, Round Table Conference. The Congress role in the provinces, Lahore
Resolution 1940, various missions and plans for the partition of the sub-continent.
5. Quaid-i-Azam as an organizer of the Muslim League Muslim leader and maker of
Pakistan.
PAKISTAN SINCE 1947
Part B

Constitution making in Pakistan-various attempts at constitution making.

Difficulties in establishing a parliamentary democracy. imposition of various
Martial Laws, nature of Pakistan's economy. development plaits. Role of foreign
aid.

Separation of East Pakistan, causes and effect: Pakistan and the world-major
powers, Islamic world, relations with India.

Social and intellectual trends after 1947. Contribution of Quaid-i Azam as First
Governor General and Liaquat All Khan as first Prime Minister.

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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

Constitutional Development in Pakistan

Constitutional History of India
Early India & Pakistan
Five Thousand Years of Pakistan

G.W. Choudhry
Keith A.B.
Wheeler Mortimer
Wheeler R.E.M.

Government and Politics in Pakistan

Pakistan & India
Political System in Pakistan
Pakistan; The Formitive Phase
Studies in Islamic Culture in Indian
Environment
The Making of Pakistan
Political Parties in Pakistan Vol. I & II
The Great Divide; Britain, India and Pakistan
The Pakistan Experience - State and Religion
A History of India
Pakistan in Transition

Ahmed Mushtaq
G.W. Choudhry
Khalid Bin Saeed
Khalid Bin Saeed
Aziz Ahmed
Richard Symond
Afzal, Rafique
Hodson, H.V.
Khan, Asghar
Kulke, Hermann & Rothermond, Dietmar
Wriggins, W.H. (ed)

Islamic History And Culture (Total Marks 200)

PAPER-I (Marks-l00)

1. Humanity at the dawn of Islam

o A brief survey of major world civilization, with special emphasis on their
intellectual, humanistic and special institutions - their impact on world
history.
2. Advent of Islam
o Life and teachings of the Holy Prophet. Foundations of a new and
revolutionary world order: Institutions of Islam; Political. Social, Economic
and Legal Structure of the Islamic polity.
o The Quran: Emphasis on the study of Nature and Research. Changes brought
by Islam in human thinking and behaviour.
3. Foundation of Muslim State
o Early conquests of the Khulfa-i-Rashidin; Administrative and legal structure
of the State.
Political and Ideological differences and the emergence of the Ummayyads:
Expansion and consolidation of the Empire.
4. The Grandeur of Islam
o Philosophical, scientific and Literary Progress of the Muslims during the

Abbasid period.
5. The Ottoman Caliphate
o Turkish march towards Europe. Political structure of the Turkish Empire,
salient features of their administration, decline and disintegration.
PAPER-II (Marks - 100)

1. Islam in Africa and Spain

2. Muslim achievements in Natural and Social Sciences:
o Schools of Baghadad, Spain and Iran, Muslim contribution to History,
Science. Medicine and other branches of human civilization.
3. Muslim Arts
o Muslims' contribution in architecture, music, painting, handicrafts, pottery,
calligraphy, etc.
4. Renaissance and Reformation
o Origin of this intellectual revolution; Contribution of' Muslim Universities
and Seminaries in Spain and Baghdad:
Dissemination of Muslim learning's in the West.
5. Modem World
o Impact of Islam on Western thought, social institutions and economic
policies.

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Suggested Readings
Title
Discovering Islam - Making Sense of Muslim History and Society
Islam: Ideology and Leading Issues
The Spirit of Islam
Aspects of Islamic Civilization: The Muslim World Depicted
Through Its Literature

Author
Ahmed, Akbar S.
Ali, Anwar
Ali, S. Ameer
Arberry, A.J.

The Preaching of Islam - A History of the Muslim Faith

Arnold, T.W.

The History of Philosophy in Islam

History of the Islamic People
Spanish Islam
Studies on the Civilization of Islam
The Religion of Islam Vol. I & II
Classical Islam; A History 600-1258
Cambridge History of India
Islam Resurgent: The Islamic World Today
Islam: From Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinpole
Islam in History
Islam and the Modern World
The Making of the Past; the Spread of Islam
A History of Medieval Islam
Introduction to Islamic Civilization

Boer, T.J. De
Brockelmann, Carl (ed)
Dozy, R.
Gibb Hamilton A.R.
Glawash, Ahmed A.
Grunebaum, G.E. Voni
Holts, P.M. and Lewis, Bernard
Irving, T.B.
Lewis, Bernard
Munir, Muhammad
Nadawi, Abu Hassan Ali
Rogers, Michael
Saunders, J.J.
Savory, R.M. (ed)
Schacht, Joseph & Bosworth, C.E.
(eds)
Shaban, M.A.
Sharif, M.M.
Mohammed Hanif Nadvi
Siddiqi, Amir Hassan

The Legecy of Islam

Islamic History - A New Interpretation AD 750 - 1055
A History of Muslim Philosophy
Muslim Thought: Its Origin and Achievements
Studies in Islamic History
Mercantile Law (Total Marks - 100)

The main principles of law relating to Agreements; Contracts; Bailment; Pledge; Sale of
Goods Act; Agency; Partnership Act; Indemnity and Guarantee; Negotiable Instruments
Act; Companies Ordinance 1984; Contract Act; Life, Fire and Marine Insurances, Law of
Arbitration

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Suggested Readings
Title
A Hand Book of Company Law
A Manual of Mercantile Law
Contract Act
Insurance Law
Negotiable Instruments Act
Sales of Goods and Partnership Acts
Arbitration Act., 1940

Author
Choudhry A. M.
Hashmi, I.R. & Latif Ahmed
Mannan, M. A.
Farani
Khergermvala
Pollock and Mulla

Muslim Law and Jurisprudence (Total Marks - 100)

1. The Islamic Law as administered in Pakistan

2. Principals of Islamic Jurisprudence
Candidates will be expected to show some familiarity with the original sources.

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Title
Principles of Mohammadan Law
The Principles of Mohammadan Jurisprudence

Author
Mulla, D. F.
Sir Abdul Rahim

English Literature (Total Marks - 100)

The paper is divided into six components along with the marks allocation for each
component.
I. Essays: (10 Marks)

Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness)

George Orwell (Politics and the English Language; The Prevention of Literature)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Transcendentalist; Self-reliance)

II. Short Stories: (10 Marks)

Somerset Maugham (The Lotus-eater)

G.K.Chesterton (A Somewhat Improbable Story)

OHenry (The Gift of the Magi)

III. Poetry: (20 marks)

William Wordsworth (Resolution Independence; Tintern Abbey)

John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale; Ode to Autumn)

Lord Alfred Tennyson (Ulysses; The Lady of Shalott)

Yeats (A Dialogue of Self and Soul; The Second Coming)

Eliot (The Wasteland; Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

Philip Larkin (Maturity; Continuing to Live; The Trees)

Wallace Stevens (A postcard from the volcano; Continual conversation with a silent
man; Dry loaf) OR Walt Whitman (As I ponderd in silence; Are you the new
person drawn toward me?; This moment yearning and thoughtful)

IV. Drama: (20 marks)

Shakespeare (Hamlet; King Lear, As you like it and Twelfth Night)

William Congreve (The Way of the World)

Shaw (Pygmalion; Heartbreak House)

Harold Pinter (The Caretaker)

Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)

Eugene ONeill (Long Days Journey into Night)

V. Novels: (20 marks)

Thomas Hardy (Far from the Madding Crowd)

D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)

George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-four)

James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

Iris Murdoch (Under the Net)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter) or William Faulkner (The Sound and the
Fury)

VI. Literacy Theory & Criticism (20 Marks)

Structuralism

Marxism

Deconstructionism

Psychoanalytic criticism

Feminist criticism

Postcolonial Criticism

Note: The texts are mentioned in brackets in front of each authors name. However, for the
component on Literary Theory and Criticism and for understanding poetry and
drama, particularly 20th century poetry and Drama, following readings are suggested:

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Suggested Readings
Title
The basics Literary Theory. (Second edition). Routledge.
Literary Theory: An Introduction. (Anniversary Edition)
A New Handbook of Literary Terms.
A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry.
A Readers Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. (Fifth
edition)
Twentieth Century British Drama.
Modern Critical Views & Interpretations, ed: 80s and 90s
editions.
A Companion to 20th Century Drama Oxford: Blackwell.

Author
Bertens, H. (2008).
Eagleton, E. (2008)
Mikics, W. (2007).
Roberts, N. (2003).
Selden, R., Widdowson, P., &
Brooker, P. (2005)
Smart, J. (2001).
Harold Bloom (these include all
range of authors and their works
given above)
Krasner David. 2005.

Internationa Relations (Total Marks-100)

Part - A
1. The modern state system-history, basic features, evolving forms.
2. International Relations as a field of study, Basic Approaches- Power, Balance of
Power, Imperialism, Nationalism.
3. Interaction between states-diplomacy, International Law, international economic and
trade linkages-pressures in world politics.
Part - B
1. Evolution of the International System since 1815 (Congress of Vienna) Historical
Overview.
2. World War III. Decolonization, Rise of the Third World Alliance System (NATO,
SEATO. CENTO, WARSAW PACT) Peaceful coexistence: Non-Aligned Movement
Theories of Peace and Security in Nuclear Age (Deterrence. Limited war. Crisis
Management etc) Dtente
Part - C
1. Foreign Policies of the Superpowers, major powers (USA. USSR. China) with
special reference to South Asia (India. Pakistan, etc.).
2. Issues in global Politics.

Nuclear Proliferation.

Superpower rivalry in the Indian Ocean.

International economic order.

Regional Security issues and crises (Afghanistan Crises Iran-Iraq war,

Palestine problem, Apartheid and South Africa, Namibia, Polish crises,
Eurocommunism, Central American crises etc.)

Arms Control and disarmament.

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Suggested Readings

Title
International Politics
Politics among Nations
World Politics: An Introduction
An Introduction to International Politics; Power and Justics
Contending Theories of International Relations
Issues in Global Politics
World Politics since 1945
International Relations: Peace or War
Relations of Nations
Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and
Strategic Perspectives
Sanctuary and War
Contemporary Strategy: Theories and Policies

Author
K.J. Holsti
Hans Morgenthan
James N. Rosenau
Theodor Contobius and Thomas Wolfe
Tames Dougherty
Gavin Boyd
Peter Caloucorassi
Richard Rosecrance
Frederick Hartman
Rasul Bux Rais
Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
J. Baylis, K. Booth, P. Williams, J. Garnet