LUBP: Dr. Siddiqa, thanks for taking out the time to interview with us. Tell us something about your background and what made you go into the civil services and then subsequently quit the service?

AS: I was born and raised in Lahore. So, despite that my family is from Bahawalpur, a place with which I have active contact, my heart is Lahori (it is a frame of mind). I joined the civil service in 1988 purely for personal reasons.

I lost my father in 1979 and being an only child I was left with my mother to confront issues of inheritance. After I did my bachelors from Kinnaird College, Lahore my mother, who was a novelist – Jamila Hashmi, advised me to do CSS.

Seeing my resistance to the idea one day she told me that “look child you don’t have a father, brother or uncles to help you. You need to stand on your feet to survive, which in this country, means having contacts. You should either earn a name for yourself through writing (and she meant fiction) or join the civil service.

In hindsight, it was a good decision because I finished with my written exams for the CSS in October 1987 and my mother passed away in January 1988 leaving me behind to stand up ‘on my two feet’. I realized that being a member of the civil service made such a difference in the world.

The deputy commissioner Bahawalpur, who was a pakka DMG (District Management Group) officer with the ‘right’ kind of attitude for a brown sahib, began to behave differently. I was no more the awam (ordinary person) but part of the class of rulers. Trust me, this meant a lot in a feudal-bureaucratic environment.

I was in the Audit and accounts service and served in various capacities. It was during this period that I went to England to do my Ph.D. in War Studies, King’s College, London. I returned in 1996 and rejoined civil service where I remained until I resigned in 2000. Prior to my resignation I also served in Pakistan Navy for a year and a half as Director of Naval Research. The problems, which were the cause for my joining the civil service, were no more and I was more inclined to pursuing an academic career. I have no regrets on my decision. I think I was just not suited for a bureaucratic career.

Please proceed to the source for the complete interview.

Muhammad Yasir Pirzada is also young and famous CSS officer of pakistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasir_Pirzada

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THAT politicians in our country are out and out philistines is a fact that we all strongly believe. But then there are scholastic figures like Sartaj Aziz among them whose personality contradicts this notion. Unassuming, bonhomous and scholarly, Sartaj Aziz combines in himself the rare quality of a passionate inclination towards art and literature. He has served the country in the capacity of Finance Minister and Foreign Minister. But these days, he is heading a private non-profit institution as he loves teaching too.

Born in a highly educated family of NWFP, Sartaj Aziz joined Islamia College Lahore when the Pakistan movement was in full swing. As per the advice of Quaid-i-Azam, he studied commerce and later joined the civil service. But he passed his formative years in the Planning Commission, and later he joined FAO and went on to be its director. And finally fate took him into the realm of politics.

Reminiscing about his early years, he says,”My father, who was a civil servant, was on friendly terms with Swami Teerath Ram who wrote books on mysticism. So he would narrate extracts from the works of Swami to me when I was in Eight Class. My grandfather, Haji Moatamid, was the first Matriculate from NWFP. He was a civil servant too, but later he turned into a mystic and wrote a book Elaj-ul-Qalb in 1914 on the subject of mysticism. So I was brought up in such a knowledge-friendly atmosphere.”

Complete article here

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DMG, over the last 63 years, has produced an array of very competent and brilliant officers who have held illustrious careers. Some earned their fame for their role in the political setups, others for the professional calibre and delivery of public services. A few of the prominent personalities of DMG are enumerated below:

• Hafiz Abdul Majeed, First Chief Secretary of Punjab, 1947.
• Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, 1964 Batch CSP(also former President of Pakstan).
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Former CSP and President of Pakistan.
• Afzal Kahut, Former Secretary, Establishment. 1964 batch.
• Shamsher Ali Khan, Former Federal Secretary, Secretary to President Leghari. 1964 Batch of CSP. (did Suicide)
• Mian Tayab, 1964 batch and Former Federal Secretary P&D.Former Member FPSC.
• Tariq Sultan, Former Principal Staff College.
• Mehr Jewan Khan, Former Principal Staff College & Secretary to the then Chief Minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif.
• Anwar Zahid, former Secretary to President.
• Masood Khadarposh, ICS.
• Mian Riazuddin, ICS. & husband of renowned urdu writter begum akhtar riazzudin, & father of Ms Negar Ahmad, Chairman Aurat Foundation.
• Raseed Khan,CSP & former Mohtasib Punjab.
• Imtiaz Masrur, Former Chief Secretary Punjab
• AZK Sherdil, former Chief Secretary Punjab
• Osama Maud (Shaheed), A road of Lahore on his name as he was murdered on way back home.2nd common batch.
• Kamran Rasul, former Chief Secretary Punjab.
• Shahid Rafi, Former Secretary Water & Power. 2nd common
• Khushnood Akhtar Lashari, 3rd common, Currently Federal Secretary Establishment.
• GM Sikandar, formerly Tribal Area Group & then DMG. Secretary to CM Pervaiz Elahi and retired as Federal Secretary. 2nd common
• Kashif Murtaza, former Cheif Secretary AJK, Former chairman Railway.
• Mrs. Sarod Lashari,3rd common w/o Khushnood Lashari, 3rd common.
• Abdul Rauf Ch, currently Federal Secretary Cabinet.
• Pervaiz Masud, Former Chief Secretary, Punjab.
• Hafiz Akhtar Randhawa, Former Chief Secretary, Punjab.
• Sibtain Fazl-e-Halim, Currently Federal Secretary.2nd common
• Toqeer Ahmad Faiq, Former, A.S.I(Wafaqi Mohtasib). 3rd common
• MY Labib Ur Rehman, Former, A.S.I(Wafaqi Mohtasib).2nd common.
• Sh Habib Ur Rehman, Former Secretary Punjab, 3rd common.
• Syed Muhammad Hamid Shah, Former Secretary Pujab, 3rd common.
• Dr. Liaqat Ali Khan Niazi, Former DG, Punjab. 3rd common.
• Salman Saddique, Currently, Chairman FBR & former Chief Secretary Punjab. 2nd common.
• Mian Muhammad Jamil, Former Federal Secretary. 1st common.
• Humaiyoun Farshori, 1st common former federal secretary.
• Ismail Qureshi, 1st common, former federal secretary. 1st common.
• Roedad Khan, Former Secretary General of Pakistan
• Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Former Federal Secretary and Pakistani Ambassador to Netherlands
• Kamran Lashari, currently OSD Establishment Division
• Shafqat Mahmood, Ex-Senator and Federal Minister for Information
• Shahid Javed Burki, Ex-Federal Minister for Finance
• Javed Mehmood, Former Chief Secretary

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Shakeel Durrani

Mr Shakeel Durrani - the present Chairman of Wapda. Earlier, he was Chief Secretary of Sindh. He joined the civil services in 1970 and has retained a few key positions - Chief Secretary AJK, Chief Secretary, Khyber Pakhtoonkhua and Secretary Population Welfare Division, Government of Pakistan.

Mr Durrani specializes in national development and project planning and holds a master’s in Economics from the Bradford University, UK. During his long career, he has attended several seminars, conferences, training sessions in areas of his expertise in different countries around the world at prestigious institutions – Philippines, Thailand, University of Louisiana, Harvard Institute of International Development, Cambridge, etc.


NOTE: My Dad cleared CSS in 1970 and he says that shakeel durrani was the topper of CE-1970.

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Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad, commonly known as MM Ahmad (February 28, 1913, in Qadian, India - July 23, 2002) was a Pakistani civil servant and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Education and early life
He was educated first at Government College, Lahore, and later at the University of London and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He joined the Indian Civil Service - the ICS - in 1939. Following Partition in 1947, he joined the CSP (Civil Service of Pakistan), this was to mark the beginning of an illustrious and distinguished career within the Pakistan Civil Service. Mirza Muzaffar Ahmad was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Career
MM Ahmad was first posted in Lahore, the capital of the part of Punjab that was attached to Pakistan. Among the positions MM held in Lahore was that of secretary of finance. Later, he went to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, where he served in a number of senior positions, including secretary of commerce, secretary of finance, and deputy chairman of the Planning Commission. At this juncture in his career, MM was arguably the most powerful civil servant in Pakistan, with supervisory authority over all three ministries. During M M Ahmad's service, Pakistan underwent rapid industrialization and growth. This received acknowledgment both within Pakistan and amongst the international development community. It should be noted M M success was attributable to his ability to assemble a highly capable team of economists, planners and engineers such as the late Dr Mahbub ul Haq, Sartaj Aziz and many others.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Muzaffar_Ahmad

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Muhammad Izhar ul Haq

Muhammad Izhar ul Haq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Many changes inlist of prominent officers happened
Abdul Rauf Ch, is now Secretary Establishment of 2nd common.
Khushnood Lashari, is now Secretary to PM Gillani.
AZK Sherdil is now not in this world.

May some one add the remaining CSP's of the famous 1964 batch which ruled the Pakistan Secretariat in 1990's.

@ Frankenstein of css
yes u r rite. My father an officer of 3rd comon DMG admits this, dat CSP's were much better than commoners. My teacher Tariq Sultan CSP, Former chairman PPSC also holds same opinion, that this DMG cadre & common system has destroyed the prestigious commissionery system.

SI Haq, ICS, former chief Secretary of Punjab Province. Father of Dr. Nadeem Ul Haq, Currently Dy Chairman Planning Commission of Pakistan

Pir Ahsan Uddin, ICS, was Deputy Commissioner Shiekhupura in 1947. Served at many key positions also

Further addiitons in the list, but these are of PAS, the first and last batch of PAS of 1949, which was next year renamed as CSP.

I. A. Imtiazi 1949 batch; one of most renowned Officer/federal secretary. former president CSP association
Roedad Khan 1949 batch
Aftab Hussain 1949 batch chairman urdu board
Akhter Husain CSP (later Governor West Pakistan),

FK Bandial, father of Omer Atta bandial, Justice ICS. Former ACS West Pakistan