Compulsory · GK-III · 100 marks
The Pakistan Movement, constitutional history, governance, economy and foreign relations. Question themes repeat across decades, which makes the full archive unusually valuable here.
25 papers, 2000 to 2024
Pakistan Affairs is the highest-scoring compulsory paper and the most repetitive. Twenty-five years of papers cover a finite body of material, and the same handful of debates return in slightly different words.
FPSC lists this paper as General Knowledge Paper-III (Pakistan Affairs).
CSS 2025 mean score
47.9/100
That is the average mark real candidates scored on this paper in CSS 2025, against a 40 percent pass requirement. Our full analysis breaks down the score spread, pass rates and provincial split for all six compulsory papers.
Read the CSS 2025 compulsory results analysisGroup the questions by era rather than by year: the Pakistan Movement, the constitutional experiments of 1956, 1962 and 1973, the military periods, the eighteenth amendment, and the post-2008 civilian order.
Watch for the questions that appear in three or four different years. Those are the ones worth preparing to full length.
Pair the older papers with the newer ones on the same theme. Seeing how a 2003 question on provincial autonomy becomes a 2019 question on the NFC award tells you what the examiner actually wants.
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