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Rida E Zahra (FSP) Interview CSS-2020
Candidate Welcome by Panelists | CSS Question Answer Session
can i come in
yes take your seat
how are you i’m good sir how are you
you can introduce yourself please to all
of us tell us about
something about yourself sir my name is
i got my primary year education from all
over punjab
which played a pivotal role in shaping
the person that i am today i’m very
social
very open to meeting new people because
of that i did my o levels from
cathedral school it was a missionary
school again
it taught me a lot of things studying
with the people from all sorts of
faiths and i did my a levels from
lahore grammar school and then my
bachelor’s from lahore school of
economics
in my free time i like spending time
with my dogs i have a lot of them
and i also like traveling whenever i get
the time
and money
so why you are looking for the civil
services
sir two three primary reasons
first is sir i believe
because i have looked up to my
father and my brothers and growing up
i’ve seen them in service and i’ve seen
them do a lot of good
therefore i wanted to
do the same for the people and to do
the same that they did for the people
second is that i believe that you
know after
once you’re it’s like magical’s
hierarchy of needs once you’ve fulfilled
your physiological and your social needs
you climb up to
self-achievement and i think there’s
no better achievement than competitive
examination
so there’s a need to you know feel
good about yourself and to
get achieve something in life that
was another reason i wanted to
join civil service
that’s primary two reasons yes you have
been in
law business you have done this law
business economics
also in a level yes in my advances
my graduation yes what is the size of
gdp
pakistan what is it sir if you would
allow me to take a guess
i cannot recall the exact amount it
was a close to
so i believe
i’m sorry how do you see the economic
future of pakistan keeping in mind
the current scenario so i believe that
there are a lot of challenges being
faced by pakistan today and
we have a lot of constraints especially
after covet in 2020 we do not have a lot
of opportunities to grow in a lot of
areas
the trade is restricted at the moment
also we because we have been going to
imf for this was the third
consecutive year for pakistan third
consecutive term for pakistan in which
we were going to imf so we
also have to follow their plans and
how
they want the structural adjustment
programs for example which we have to
follow if
we are to take loan from them so we have
a lot of constraints and i believe there
are a lot of challenges however
i think we are at least in the last
quarter there have been some growth
and there have been some positive
in terms of trade as well in terms of
export and we are going towards positive
growth
and as compared to other countries
which are going in negative growth for
their exports
i believe that in the coming
year things are going to stabilize to
some extent
after once the thing goes away and
once pakistan needs to work a
little bit harder in terms of his
economics but yes
now there is a criticism on cpap
that it is a death trap for pakistan
because we have to pay about 6.7 billion
dollar
which is less than what we have to pay
to the imf
do you think it is so sir
i believe that it is not a dead trap
i do believe that there are no black
invites in this there’s a lot of gray
area
so when we say that we have we owe a lot
to imf that is absolutely true and
considering our economic situation it is
not going to be easy repaying that sort
of debt
because our foreign currency reserves
are not in a great place right now
however also i also believe
that pakistan this is a great
opportunity for pakistan to grow in the
first place we do not have
a lot of projects this this level
massive scale projects in pakistan
available right now that can give
pakistan the opportunity to grow its
exports to such a large extent
so i believe that though the
giving the loans back is going to be
very challenging for pakistan but if
cpec was not available i think
the opportunity available for pakistan
to
work with china so closely the
port that connects
us the gawad airport is a great
project we have our
10 se secs
the our special economic zones so all
of this is
opportunity for pakistan to grow and
growth is the first step in repaying the
loans
so i think it it cannot be called
a
debt trap it can be called a challenge
in repaying the loan however dead
trap i believe sir is a
a stretch i would call it a stretch yes
it’s an opportunity for pakistan for
growth
there is a perception that there is a
shift of pakistan government
foreign policy and we are tilting more
to
a new block than the previous one where
we used to be say saudis and
us but now we’re tilting to another
block can you make your comments on that
sir i believe it has if you look at
historically
pakistan has always had a very
hyphenated foreign policy from the very
beginning since 1947 we have always had
a tail towards united states
particularly
after that we also had it towards saudi
arabia there was always this
geostrategic partnership between saudi
arabia and pakistan
and we were exporting arms and these
things
and therefore we were also taking a lot
of
funding from saudi arabia so we always
had a natural till towards that however
in the least recent times we have
been seeing that because of cpac cpac
can be one reason
also there is when pakistan joined
the shanghai corporation organization in
2017.
they have been some sort of coalition
with not just china
in terms of trade but also with russia
as well
and i believe now pakistan
is dehydrating its foreign policy
towards not just
russia china and iran block but also
we’re moving towards
turkey and we’re moving towards malaysia
which i think is very good for pakistan
because
associating with just one country saudi
arabia or just
a united states is not very favorable
for pakistan
in terms that we can be isolated
diplomatically isolated if we just stick
to one or two countries so i think now
that we are
moving towards malaysia turkey and other
countries and associating with
the bigger block i think it will be a
very favorable for pakistan
i also believe that we should not take
sides
in this particular scenario like siding
with just russia or china bloc would not
be very favorable
for pakistan or completely leaving
united states saudia bloc because we
have worked very closely with saudi and
we have worked very closely with united
states over the
past six seven decades so i believe we
need to keep a neutral approach when it
comes to
our foreign policy and we need to
associate with ourselves with each and
every country when it comes to our
geo
economics as pakistan is struggling
economically we need to focus on trade
with each and every country rather than
picking sides or picking blocks okay
thank you
what strategy will you propose
for the better economic development of
the country
sir i would first
like to apologize i’m not an economic
student
for the last at least six seven years so
i cannot go into nitty gritties of
economics however so first i believe
that there are certain things for
example
i believe that in order
for our for our foreign exchange
reserves first need to be considered
because
if we’re not paying for it imports our
imports for example oil which is
a very big determinant in our
the growth of our economy if we cannot
pay for our
imports we we cannot actually sustain
our economic model so we need to foreign
our foreign ex currency resource through
investments
through whatever chance we can get
to get something in pakistan that would
be our first step
second would be our export
infrastructure we need to
increase our revenue through
improving our export infrastructure and
increasing our exports so we can
actually
have a more
better exports and better economic
conditions in pakistan
which are the major sectors which
contribute towards the gdp
sir i i’m sorry i’m not fully aware
of that but if you would allow me to
take a guess
i would say textile must be one of
the leading our expert
because we are exporting cartoon and
we are also exporting manufacturing
cloth in pakistan
i have read dried dates right
no i’m sorry i would not services
industry agriculture
and and foreign remittances
foreign remittances is a big source of
foreign exchange to pakistan
what do you think could be done to
improve its flow towards pakistan
make it still better so i believe
that
one of our highest foreign remittances
are from
saudi arabia uae and these countries and
i think
we need to i would start at the base
level sir that in
order to improve remittances we first
have to send people abroad and for that
we need to improve
the skill set in people that we have
here
so we need to have more vocational
training centers and the sort of
training that is required to send people
abroad so they can
actually be a productive member of their
services and they
they can then therefore send money to
pakistan
so i believe it starts at teaching
people the
relevant skills at this level that they
can be more productive
okay how serious is the crime of money
laundering
sir i believe that it at least right
now
if pakistan is in a big trouble because
of this
economically as well as
sir money laundering is illegal transfer
of money
through informal channels it’s
it has three steps it’s a placement
layering and then integration
that is correct that is correct
placement
and clearing that is that is
how money is how you hide your money
conceal your dirty money
that is money laundering so sending
money abroad is not
money laundering the very act of
yours that you’re trying to in order to
hide your dirty money money which you
have earned through corruption
or through crime what you do
in that regard that is money you open
bank accounts you
you see you buy property
binami properties you buy land so
that is money learning washing your
dirty money so
so coming you are answering my question
how serious is this
so i believe that right now pakistan
needs to
take some drastic steps to curb this
because we have been in the fatf gray
list for quite a while now
and that is proving detrimental for
pakistan not just in terms of economics
but also in terms of
the pakistan’s image abroad
and that has also hindered investments
for pakistan
here i believe that sir pakistan has
been taking some steps and pakistan has
been able to
at least take care of 21 out of the
27
items in the imf list and we are only
left with six or seven and we have
time to february to do that so i believe
that
it has been a big problem for
pakistan but but pakistan is taking the
necessary
steps in the right direction to actually
curb money laundering
and i believe that with a few more
measurements and
maybe introducing a few more bills
that are aimed and directed
at curbing this
menace would prove to be beneficial
in me okay
okay iran has increased the
rate of its urani in enrichment
it has raised it to 20 almost
very nearing 20 percent from three
why why iran is doing that
so i believe one of the reasons would be
after
president tr p’s unilateral withdrawal
from the jcpoa
iran was not left but
there were a lot of sanctions on iran
again so once
the treaty was the whole pact was
violated iran did not have a lot to work
with in that particular situation since
it was adhering
to the joint comprehensive plan of
action till this time
and it did when it was unilaterally
withdrawn
ira it was not it was not iran’s
iran was no longer bound to actually
follow
the uranium infringement numbers
anymore
therefore iran will be able to
make atomic bomb bomb with that level of
enrichment
sir i i do not know the physics of it
but i believe that iran is going in that
direction but there are a lot of
national and international pressures
iran’s leading scientist physicist who
was working on the plan was assassinated
a month or two back i’m not exactly sure
date but there are a lot of
hindrances in the plan
so i’m not sure if iran would be able to
go ahead with it and also
the new president of united states oh
biden has
committed that you he would enter the
jcpoa again and
intend to work with iran in this
scenario so i believe that
it might not be entirely possible for
iran in the coming months to
actually make here what is red tapism
sir red tapism is a lot of paperwork
involved or when it comes to actually
going ahead with if
we talk in terms of establishing new
businesses so that typism would be
difficulty when it comes to paperwork
and all the steps that are involved in
this
which makes it difficult for a process
to
smoothly function
okay one small question from the
history of pakistan what is the
importance of the sarya damathan
and aligarh movement in the history of
pakistan
sir so specially when it comes to
the education system and the education
for muslims in that time
which was a a a
factor that played a part in
establishment of pakistan
so before his efforts toward education
the muslims muslims were mainly
not in the center stage when it comes to
politics in the
in the subcontinent as well as in
other scenarios
muslims were lagging behind in every
situation and people were taking
this interstage in terms of government
jobs and other
cases
he created his awareness among the
people of subcontinent about
learning english about learning
languages about
getting the education not just the
education islamic education but also
the best in education so they can
compete with
the northwest but also the foreigners
who were working there
so i believe that was the first like
foundations that
okay how can we control gender-based
violence in
in this
religious theme as well that it’s
somehow justified in terms of that
and pakistan is taking some steps in
that direction
to actually
we are going in the right direction when
it comes to gender-based volun
when it comes to reporting these cases
there are a lot of
shame associated with gender-based
violence and domestic violence
because of which women don’t necessarily
report so i believe
on paper there needs to be some more
amendments but i also believe that
the practicality needs to be focused on
how we can actually
promote women from coming out how we can
actually increase the
women to report these crimes and then
take decisive measures so they are not
hindered when other women are not
hindered to actually go ahead with it
what is a decent work and
what is the contribution of a decent
work in
economic growth so i have to apologize i
am not aware of that i will read on it
i’m sorry
thank you
is very different from other districts
in a way that it has
a lot of different land features so
pusha
if we start from
has mountains it’s a mountainous area
then if we come down there is mountain
which is called the mountain waves
we go further we have a river
what are the six ps of marketing
product price placement promotion
in hobbies and sports you have written
animals
would you make us understand what is
this hobby animals
sir i have a lot of animals at home so
that takes up a lot of my time i also
rescue animals
don’t you think that there is an
appropriate word to describe it
keeping pets animals itself can’t be
described as a hobby
sir yes you’re absolutely right
okay your favorite president in the
history of united states
and why sir
i would say
sir i would like to go with
roosevelt wish roosevelt
and frank he was a person why i said i
believe that he took
he did a lot for his own country and in
that terms after the great depression of
1929
he took a lot of steps the new deal
the first and second new deal that
actually
brought the united states out of the
great depression and i know that world
war one what were the main features of
new delhi
one of the most
major and important was the social
security act of the night
1935 which is still applicable to
this point in which
he established that it was the state’s
responsibility to actually
take care of its citizens in terms of
health and education what
what do you know about iran contra gate
affair
okay coming towards your business
administration measures
what is the conclusion or the major
findings of hawthorne studies
so i cannot recall it at this point
thank you
okay let’s conclude over this interview
session
and we can go for the debriefing if you
like
if you have got any question you can ask
okay i think you are very good
your communication skills are very
fine you are articulate
you’re confident you’re intelligent
i think you are very good but you are
competing with the very good from punjab
so you have to keep it up and you need
to improve your knowledge
and when is your interview so my
you have to work very hard this is my
advice today we place you in a very good
position
after seeing it i think
it is more or less the same our
knowledge is better
rule of
it is one of the goals of sustainable
developments your 17 goals and also
one of our goals is to have
a decent work for economic growth
have it with either me or anyone else
throughout the interview you sat with
cross legs like this
okay which is not a positive
straight back i know it’s your
that’s the basic purpose you came here
for
eye contact
so then you start staring towards
ceiling or
something
you need
thank you