Over 65,000 Govt Jobs Have Been Vacant for Years

Around 65,000 job openings within the government are lying vacant across Pakistan. These posts range from grade 1 to grade 22 and have been empty for the last few years.

According to the documents shared by the Establishment Division, 520,382 posts were sanctioned with 454,517 filled in FY 2015-2016. The other 65,865 jobs were left vacant.

The documents contain data about civil servants, gazette and non-gazette employees, women, and non-Muslims working for the federal government, the ministries’ divisions and their associated departments.

Job Openings By Grades

Categorizing the vacancies by their grades, 57,743 jobs were available for Grade 1-16 with:

  • 7,000 openings for Grade 16
  • 5,000 for Grade 14
  • 4,000 for Grade 11
  • 5,000 for Grade 7
  • 10,000 for Grade 1

Around 8,122 posts were available from Grade 17-22 with:

  • 5,000 jobs for Grade 17
  • 1,997 for Grade 18
  • 305 for Grade 20
  • 45 for Grade 21
  • 19 for Grade 22

You can also check Jobs opening by Grades from Startjobs.pk

An official from the Establishment Division justified the job openings saying,

The posts are vacant for several reasons including recently retired employees, court cases, and non-availability of professionals against those seats.

The number of federal government employees also increased by 17.28% between FY 2006-2007 to FY 2015-2016, up from 375,932 to 454,517.

Women Employed by the Govt

A total of 23,298 women in Grades 1-22 are employed by the government with 6,014 employed within Grades 17-22. 11 women are employed at Grade 22 with:

  • One employed in Islamabad
  • 8 in Punjab
  • 1 in Sindh
  • 1 in KPK

No women were employed from Balochistan, FATA and G-B.

From Grade 1-16, 5,295 women are employed. Breaking down the numbers:

  • 3,869 from Punjab
  • 178 from Islamabad
  • 1,248 from KPK and Sindh

Religious Minorities

Around 11,470 government employees hail from different religious minorities. 11,221 are working at Grades 1-16 and 249 from Grade 17-22.

These include: Christians, Ahmadis, Hindus, Sikhs and other minorities.

Back in FY 2012-2013, 10,388 religious minorities were employed by the government with:

  • 9,320 Christians
  • 222 Ahmadis
  • 719 Hindus
  • 104 non-caste Hindus
  • 7 Sikhs
  • 16 from other religions

The problem of vacant job openings has been a point of serious concern for the Federal and Provincial governments, especially Balochistan and FATA.

Even now, there are 3,431 posts ripe for the taking in Balochistan’s government offices under Aghaz-e-Huqooq Balochistan.

A techie, gamer, and Senior Editor at ProPakistani.


  • Those posts will remain blank unless some one pay the “rishwat” or in other words, some one can buy that post.

    • Mere Ek Bande Se Jis Ne NTS Clear Kar K Sindh Police K FInal Internview K Liye Gaya tha :
      Waha K Officers Ne Kaha 200,000 Do Next Week Appointment Letter A Jayega
      Wo Bhi Hawaldaar Ki Post K Liye
      OtherWise Qismaat Azmate Rahu..

        • Sahi : Hum Sindh Government Federal Government Army POF, NTS FPSC Etc Her Jagah Ja Chucke hai Her Jagah Internview De Chucke hai Job Bhi Government Level Pe Lag Gayi thi Merit Pe Without Paise :


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