

Highest attainable and most prestigious designation. Managing Director / Chief Executive of Autonomous Public Corporation.Chairman of Autonomous Federal Organisation.Director General of Autonomous Federal Department/Agency.Chief Secretary to Provincial Government.Office of District Coordination Officers (DCO) established BPS-21 in newly formed city district governments and BPS-20 in district governments, replacing office of deputy commissioners. Chief Secretary to AJK / Gilgit-Baltistan Government.ĭuring 2001 to 2008, Commissioners of Administrative and Larger Administrative Divisions were abolished.Chief Executive / Managing Director of Public Corporation.Commissioners of Larger Administrative Divisions.Senior Member Provincial Board of Revenue.Chairman Provincial Planning and Development Board.Additional Chief Secretary to Provincial Government (e.g.Additional Secretary to the Government of Pakistan.



Additional Political Agent for a larger agency.Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) for a larger district.Political Agent (PA) for a smaller agency.Deputy Commissioner (DC) for a smaller district.Senior Section Officer in Federal Secretariat.Deputy Secretary to Provincial Government.Assistant Director of Federal / Provincial Departmentįield appointment of AC combines roles of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) and Assistant Collector (Land Revenue).Under Secretary to Provincial Government.The Basic Pay Scales (BPS grades) are enumerated (in order of increasing responsibility) such as: They will simultaneously be charged with the responsibilities of Assistant Commissioners of Sub-Divisional level. Officers of PAS are first appointed typically as Assistant Commissioners of sub-divisions. This quota was introduced by President General Zia ul Haq through an infamous amendment to the law primarily to have domination of military over civil bureaucracy and is still in vogue. Officers of the rank of Captains (within 3 to 6 years' service) and equivalents from defense services are also inducted (in three occupational groups P.A.S, Police and Foreign Services) on allocated quota after recommendations of Chairman Federal Public Service Commission. Appointments of PAS Officers Īfter completing initial training and probation at the Civil Services Academy, officers are posted in field offices throughout Pakistan on Basic Pay Scale (BPS)-17 grade appointments. Since 1973, each year a new batch of officers undergo a "Common Training Programme" (CTP) which includes officers of thirteen occupational groups at the Civil Services Academy. Later under the administrative reforms of 1973, the name of Civil Service of Pakistan was changed to District Management Group, which became one of thirteen occupational groups under the All-Pakistan Unified Groups (APUG). In 1954, an agreement was reached between the Governor General of Pakistan and the governors of the provinces to constitute an All-Pakistan service valid throughout Pakistan. After Indian independence in 1947, the Indian Civil Service component ceded to Pakistan was renamed the Civil Service of Pakistan. The Indian Civil Service (ICS)-also known once as Imperial Civil Service in British India, predecessor of the Civil Service of Pakistan and District Management Group-was established by the British to colonize India and perpetuate the British Raj.
