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Mahnoor Ali (Information Group) Mock Interviews
Candidate Welcome by Panelists | CSS Q&A Session
how are you
i’m doing good how are you very fine
okay you can introduce yourself to all of us
my name is Mahnoor Ali i come from Rawalpindi i was
born and raised there i have two siblings
i graduated last year in doctor of pharmacy
and other than being a student of
medicine throughout my academic years i
actively participated in the
extracurricular activities that is the
student society
of the university it it gave me a position
to work on it gave me a position to work on
on a big level where i interacted with a
lot of people
and it helped me a lot polishing my
skills of leadership
planning management public speaking
and with public speaking i also was
hosted consecutively for
convocations of the university
mine was the fifth one that got
unfortunately delayed because of the
corvette
other than that i have a passion for
taking care of
the stray animals and i have been doing
it since a year now
thank you you’re coming from
district rebel bundy any challenges
which you feel the ravel pindi’s city is
facing the waste
and the other three in fact one is the
issue of waste management the other is
the transportation
and third is the rising cases of
terrorism that are being
seen in double window yeah you have
done your pharmacy
yes you completed yeah i graduated last
year
you graduate last year how do you see
this
pharmaceutical sector can you tell us
because we don’t know much
give us your overview of the whole
sector
so pharmaceutical industry basically
aims at
a few things regarding the drug it aims
at manufacturing
the distribution the regulation of drug
till
it reaches the patient the
pharmaceutical industry is completely
involved in these steps if i
specifically talk about pakistan we have
two areas here
one are ones being built by
multinational pharmaceutical companies
and the other is local pharmaceutical
companies
that are on the rise at the moment
they are working great but other than
that we also have
a few problems one of the problems that
i didn’t i can identify is the
saturation of pharmacists
in the industry because of which the
career development is
not it’s not a fast step in the
pharmaceutical industries
in the recent past there was criticism
that government of pakistan has
increased the prices of medicine
is it correct sir it is the drug
regulatory
authority that has to increase so that
sees basically the regulation of prices
and if the import
is because pakistan imports most of the
raw materials from india and from a few
other countries
including china if we are facing an
increased
increased prices or increased tariffs on
the imports in the industry
has to increase the prices in order to
deal with that gap
and when the imports or or
certain issues with india are faced and
our imports are also banned by india
and we have to look at other avenues
where we where we have to get the raw
material in higher prices
because of that purpose we have to
increase the prices and the government
has to be taken on board for that
but since public is not much aware of
the whole process so
it is criticizing it also it criticizes
the government
most of the times pakistan is going to
face
they say we are going to face water
crisis
do you think that we are going to face
water crisis
sir i do believe that we are a water
skiers country
climate change is is the phenomena
of 24th is a destructive phenomenon 21st
century that we are facing with and
pakistan is on number fifth that will be
affected through climate change
and if that were since pakistan is going
to be a water scarce country by 2030
and islamabad is going to face a lot of
scarcity in
coming years that is in 2025 so pakistan
definitely faces the issue of buddhist
scarcity
you have done this anthropology can you
tell us what is anthropology
so anthropology is the study about the
evolution of human being
study of of human beings
how human beings have which they
talk about the origins of human beings
how they have evolved through the
different civilizations
it it basically revolves all around the
human
being under his sitting around the
civilizations the culture
around how family systems developed
the system of marriage
system of siblings and everything that
involves a human being
it is is it science that it is an art
so i believe it is the study of both
science and now exposed as a foreign
service officer
how will you promote the soft image of
pakistan
abroad so
soft image of pakistan already our
government is putting a lot of effort
into helping the image of pakistan be
created in a in a greater way for that
purpose
pakistan has taken the platform of
united nations
general assembly to do to highlight its
soft image
and for further purposes it is also
taken part
actively taken part helping the afghan
peace process being dealt so through
that process also
soft image of pakistan is being is
being shown to the world
how pakistan is a peace loving country
how it is working to improve its
diplomatic ties for different states
even it offered a hand of friendship
towards
india when the current government came
into power so
this in these and such more steps
pakistan is working
to enhance its soft image abroad
and sir it is also
there are so many other things which you
could do over there
inviting people
you see from from that country where you
posted to come to pakistan
and see the tourist
resorts tourist places the northern area
beautiful northern area i mean
this could be promoted through tourism
that is the best way to
promote soft image then the efforts the
government has
taken to enhance the
you see the
the women empowerment the way the
government has
gone to empower empower women
and and and there can be many others
also
what you have said is fine
that’s also true
the united nations there
some reforms are being contemplated
in the structure and functioning of the
united
what are those sir i’m not aware of that
you’re not aware of that you should go
and have a look at it
it is important joint comprehensive plan
of action
2015 what comes to your mind
so it was the deal between united states
of america
and iran and other countries were also a
part of it
aimed at containing the nuclear
proliferation of iran
and in return iran would be relieved of
the sanctions that were imposed by the
united states
to help its economy grow but majorly it
was to contain the nuclear
provision of iran and the trump
administration pulled out of that deal
but the biden administration incoming
administration has
according to his speeches it has been
showed to his foreign policy
objectives that one of the objects would
be that he would be getting back into
negotiations with iran if
iran complies back again with the deal
mr
the cabinet plan
you know
pakistan the history of pakistan
do you have any idea so i have read
about it but
right now i am unable to talk about it
okay then how many
summits have so far held on climate
change
sir , i i’m not aware
you should know
the summits the last summit when it was
held and
what were the targets set
to reduce carbon emissions
to the member countries targets were
given objectives were
also set these these are the objectives
and these are the targets
which have to be met so
this is important because you have
environmental sciences as your option
subject but this is also a current
burning issue climate change you know
yes taking care of stray animals
yes as a hobby sir if you allow me to
say about
i i always had passion towards animals
one of the incidents occurred in front
of my eyes where i saw
a kitten being run over by a car and
there was no help to which it could run
to
so from that point i took an initiative
in my own capacity
to help stray cats and dogs most of the
times it’s the cats
so i have to get initiative in my own
capacity to work for them
and in that for that purpose i
started creating gardening boxes
i have started asking the shopkeepers to
keep those carton boxes for me so
so they basically donate it to me and
i keep it outside my house’s
my house and i have also a few of my
neighbors have also taken a part in that
thing
so we have built small shelter houses
for the animals
that can take refuge if the weather
is bad or if they
need any care so we put food over there
and also i have taken a vet a veteran
doctor on board with this if there is an
animal that seeks
who needs medical attention so
together we work for that
for that particular animal and it’s been
a few months that i’ve started this
thing since last year
that’s good you’re into pharmaceuticals
tell me what is your view on this
vaccine for kobe 19.
none pharmaceutical industries
work on research and then they produce
the vaccines
currently we have seen five to six
companies who have produced worldwide
vaccines the topmost being pisces and
that has
created the vaccine in collaboration
with bioin tech
then there is a moterina vaccine
china has also started taking initiative
and india has also started taking an
initiative
through this process and i believe
that
if we take capitalism out of this
thing then the world
can benefit a lot from the whole
pharmaceutical industry right now as
much as pharmaceutical industry is being
benefited right now
because of the situation that government
has brought brought upon all of us
can you really take out capitalism from
pharmaceutical no
so your statement is idealistic yes
great and
what are the main foreign policy
challenges for pakistan
one of the main challenge is the
security position of pakistan that
doesn’t
let us go from security to the economic
dynamics
in our foreign policy structure
the major one is being posed by our
immediate neighbor that is india
so it is a threat then we also have
afghanistan
the current situation in afghanistan as
a threat to our security
because peace in afghanistan means peace
in pakistan
so it is also one of the one of the
problem
being faced then we are also
being we are also facing the issue of
in the muslim world if we need to turn
towards
one sect or to another sect and for that
pakistan always has to
go neutral and it also comes off as
as a problem for the foreign for
pakistan’s
relations with such countries
and others such more are the problem
challenges that our foreign policy faces
right now
and what is your view on recognition of
israel by pakistan
for this i will start my answer by
quoting
the founder of pakistan he was also of
the view that pakistan shall
not recognize israel unless the
palestinians are given their due right
unless that happens pakistan will not go
for the recognition of israel
and that is also the stance of the
current prime minister of pakistan
secondly if we if pakistan does go
for the recognition of
israel then it means that we are
jeopardizing our situation
in kashmir are we standing in kashmir
because indirectly we would be accepting
what
israel is doing to kashmiri
apologies to the palestinian people and
what india is doing in kashmir
thirdly our public opinion is not in the
favor of recognizing israel so
in your in near future pakistan will
not be
recognizing israel but if the
circumstances change
if the palestinians are given their
share
then it could be a possibility that
pakistan could
recognize it thank you so much
thank you what was
martial plan so i have to revise it
so what is the difference between
working boundary
line of control and international border
so international border sir i you
have to study about it but if you
allowed to make
international boundary is the
recognized region recognized boundary
between the india between
between any two countries but the
line of control
is the disputed territory is the
disputed border
between two countries and what is
working boundary
working working
last question you know that in few
countries pakistan is a high commission
and few other we have embassies so what
is difference between these two
so high commissions are in those
countries that were previously under the
rule of
great britain and embassies are in
those countries that
have never been under at least in the
colonial rule of the great britain and
in america we have high commissioner
rambasi
we have an embassy in america they also
remain under
britain as well sir i
can’t
said mira
this is all i can say best of Luck