Originally Posted by adgoi

I read some articles on these posts. They were first announced in 2012 by FBR itself because the scale of these posts was BPS-14 at that time. Employees on these posts had been demanding promotions in grades which were finally accepted and all these posts were allotted BPS-16. All employees promoted from BPS-14 to 16 have had experience of 25 to 33 years and most of them are planned to retire in 2017. So FBR canceled that announcement because it was now in the jurisdiction of FPSC to recruit and fulfill these posts. So ultimately after 2 years FPSC announced these posts again.

Promotion policy of FBR is peculiar, one preventive officer or inspector customs has to be promoted several times but his/her grade will be still BPS-16 and these promotions have no privileges. All these posts are BPS-16
4. Superintendent of Customs/ Superintendent of Intelligence & Investigation/ Superintendent of Preventive Services/ Principal Appraiser
3. Deputy Superintendent of Customs/ Senior Intelligence Officer/ Inspector Preventive Services/ Appraising officer
2. Inspector of Customs/ Intelligence Officer/Senior Preventive Officer / Examining Officer
1. Preventive Officer
So a preventive officer or inspector custom has to be promoted several time but he/she will still be in BPS-16.

Assistant collector BPS-17 and above officers to BPS-22 are CSP and they come through CSS.

There may be some rumors in this piece of information, so if someone has authentic information, about the procedure of promotions and grades of these posts, may share it here because no one would want to be in BPS-16 even after 15 years.