A Pakistani couple, Dr Hajra Niaz and her husband Huzaifa Mughal, passed their CSS exam on their first attempt. They shared the development in a social media post.
“Alhamdulillah, we dreamt it together and achieved it together. Both me and my wife have cleared CSS 2023 and got allocated in the Police Service of Pakistan and Inland Revenue Services respectively,” Mughal said in a post.
“I was in 2nd year MBBS when Huzaifa sent proposal to my home. I told him I have my career goals, he said, ‘To mil k karen ge na’,” Dr Hajra said.
Since then, she has achieved the Prime Minister Innovation Award, the KPK Innovation Award, 19 essay awards, mentioned by the BBC, Dean’s Honour, and Youth Parliamentarian, and cleared the CSS on the first attempt.
Her WhatsApp and Instagram inboxes were flooded with messages when the result came out.
Dr Hajra did her schooling at Army Burn Hall School and College, Abbottabad. She did her MBBS from Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad.
In 2018, she was selected for the Youth Innovation Award by the KP government and under the UNDP, she worked for the welfare of transgender community and acid survivors.
She founded Ayubian Literary and Arts Forum (ALAF) and revived the Karakorum magazine of Ayub Medical College, established the Students’ Organization for Counselling, Rehabilitaion, Art Therapy, Education, and Support (SOCRATES).
When her followers asked whether CSS is difficult or easy, Dr Hajra said: “My five years of professional preparation for the MBBS was not so difficult as the CSS.”
Apart from this, she is running a social enterprise, the Annon Association, for mental health.
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