Famous Civil Servants of Pakistan
 

I gotta admit didnt know Farooq leghari was a CSP !

and I hear Zafarullah Jamali was one too!

infact i read that Ghulam Ishaq was a CSP as well.........

who else.........................??

Aitzaz Ahsan topped the test, but never joined. or so I hear.................

Anyone else know of any more?

@Dritte Reich

Ghulam Ishaq Khan was not CSP. He joined as Naib Tehsildar in 1940. Leghari was DC when he resighned to enter politics.Dont know about Jamali. However, the late Bugti passed CSP but never joined.

There were other beurocrats. Ch muhammad ali was from former indian account service , as was ghulam muhammad. CSPs also made it to the higher judiciary. Justice anwaar was csp as was Justice Cornelius.

If i am not wrong,

CSP is an acronym of Civil Servent of Pakistan. ??? One who get throug CSS, becomes CSP ???

if so then ex-President Ghulam Ishaq Khan is not CSP, He was CSI (civil servant of India). He passed his examination in 1940.

Regards,

@Dritte Reich

and dont forget Sikander mirza. he was from Indian Political Service (later merged with DMG). Another one was aziz ahmad .he was deputy CMLA under Ayub 0n 8 october 1958

@khyber

GIK made it to presidency without doing any CSS or ICS (indian civil service).He was promotee from Naib Tehsildar.

correction: I gave undue credit to a fouzia instead of fatima3k... very sorry about that ! dont know where my mind is these days :D and yes Rask you can rub it in all you want :D (see what I have to deal with when you guys wont pick up the slack ?? !!!!)

and fatima3k can you confirm aitzaz ahsan being a top shot?

Ghulam Mohd was also a CSP. He belonged to Audit and Account Service.
Chaudri M Ali also belonged to audit service.
By the way, the label CSP stands abolished. Currently, PSP and FSP labels are intact and can be used.

How on earth
 

How on earth Zafarullah khan jamali was a CSP how could he be prestigious CSP as he can't speak even little english. Sardar Farooq leghari was a CSP I'm pretty sure abt it. Aitzaz Ahsen's decison not to the service was not a wise one as he had topped. Ishaq Khan wasn't even a CSP.

Aitzaz Ahsan
 

Everybody has his own choices.
We can't suggest him a fool, why don't you look at that way if he would have chose to be a CSP he could never have earned his name, the fame he has now...
He would have been some IG, DIG or Secretary but Could never become a Federal Minister.

Famous or notorious
Here are a list of CSPs ( Before 1973 there were csps , but after viqar ahmed and bhutto massacared CSPs ther are just common :roll )
Justice munir
Justice anwar ul huq
Justice cornelius

Qudrat ullah shahab
altaf gohar
(Iskander mirza was TAG though always associated himself a part of CSP)
Akbar S ahmed
Irfan hussain
Tasneem norani
kunwar idrees
Salman foruqi
Mustaffa husain zaidi
Mukhtar masood
M. Athar Tahir
Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi
Syed Ijlal Haider Zaidi
Masuma Hasan
Akbar Salahuddin Ahmed
list is still incomplete


[quote]He would have been some IG, DIG or Secretary but Could never become a Federal Minister[/quote]
aitazaz can become a minister
Sardar abdul rasheed khan a serving ig became the cief minister of NWFP in 1953
Syed qurban ali shah became the Governer ( AN IG too)
There are many ministers now , who were the csps of past
From karachi i tell you some of the names .
There will be myriad amongst other preovinces
Like islam nabi
knwar idrees etc etc they are stalwarts of MQM
And csp were the actual ministers sir before 1973
So atleast give Aitazaz his due respect. His Audacity to challenge the status quo in the hardy times of AYUB khan

AoA,


Qudarut-ullah-shahaab was also ICS but later on he became csp ........at the time of partition...

[B]Dr. Amjad Saqib[/B],

who is the Executive Director of Akhuwat, a microfinance bank working with the objective of providing interest free credit to the poor so as to enhance their standard of living.
He joined DMG in 1985 (13th CTP).

[URL="http://www.akhuwat.org.pk/"]http://www.akhuwat.org.pk/[/URL]

Here is another example of a bureaucrat Zubair K Bhatti, making a remarkable contribution towards his department's area of influence. Such examples, if followed, can retain the confidence of masses on the state machinery.

[URL="http://thenews.jang.com.pk/print3.asp?id=15883"]http://thenews.jang.com.pk/print3.asp?id=15883[/URL]

Samuel Martin Burke from FSP (Former ICS)
 

N OT many today would have heard of Burke Sahib who was an administrator, judge, ambassador, professor and historian of distinction. But the Quaid-i-Azam, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan and other people of the generation that moulded Pakistan knew him well. Burke Sahib has not only chronicled history but is also part of it, having outlived the British Raj by over six decades.
He was born in the Punjab village of Martinpur — not far from Nankana Sahib — on July 3, 1906 when Victoria’s son Edward VII was the King Emperor, and only a year earlier Curzon had relinquished the viceroyalty of India.

Burke Sahib’s father, Janab Khairuddin, was the first graduate that the village produced. He became a headmaster and wrote Urdu verses using the nom de plume Burq (lightning) — hence the surname Burke.

The young Samuel Martin (his grandfather Chaudhry Allah Ditta had become a Christian) had a brilliant academic career. He passed his matriculation in the first division and secured a government scholarship.

At Lahore’s Government College he started with science subjects since he wished to pursue medicine. However, long hours in labs left him little time for his beloved cricket and so he switched to History, Philosophy, Persian and Urdu. He took a BA (Hons) with a first class first. This was followed by an MA (History); also a first class first.

He sat the Indian Civil Service competitive examination and was selected for a two year training period in England where he received a thorough grounding in administration and law. On returning to India he rose through the ranks of the whites-dominated higher bureaucracy. His book A Life of Fulfilment provides an interesting account of his experiences as a non-white ‘Burra Sahib’ in British India. Apart from being district head he was also a session judge.

With the creation of Pakistan he joined the new country’s fledgling foreign ministry and was later appointed envoy to no less than 11 different countries. He was honoured with the Sitara-i-Pakistan.

From 1961 to 1975 he was a professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota and founded the Burke Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1983 the United Nations Institute for Training and Research invited him to serve on its international panel.

However, it is as a writer and historian that future generations will remember him most. His books, which include Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A historical analysis; Mainsprings of Indian and Pakistani Foreign Policy; Akbar: The Greatest Mughal; Bahadur Shah: The Last Mughal Emperor of India; The British Raj in India: A historical review; and Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: His personality and his politics, are monuments to rigorous scholarship, uncluttered thinking and crafted prose.

As a trained historian Burke eschews rhetorical flourishes or flights of fancy. Not for him the style of Macaulay which, though quotable and poetic, often sacrifices truth for a memorable epigram. Burke’s agenda is historical narrative and a careful analysis of it; he is not in the business of writing history as a genre of literary expression.

Nevertheless, in his classic account of Akbar’s reign he quotes profusely from the historians of the period who penned in florid, full-blown Persian. He leaves it to these writers, many given to flattering the emperor, to provide extravagant expression. Burke endeavours to sift the wheat from the chaff as he investigates one of the most remarkable rulers of all times.

Akbar could neither read nor write but possessed astounding knowledge and immense wisdom, and his memory was phenomenal. So open-minded was he that some orthodox Muslims suspected him of heresy while many of his Hindu subjects regarded him as an avatar. Burke’s book is dedicated to ‘the peoples of South Asia whom Akbar so much wanted to live in peace and amity’.

The biography of the last Mughal has all the ingredients of a Shakespearean tragedy: the poet-king, aged and infirm, was convicted by a court that had no right to sit in judgement on him. He was exiled to Burma, now Myanmar, and his remains lie there.

Unfortunately, the governments of India and Pakistan have failed to agree on any course of action with regard to commemorating Bahadur Shah Zafar’s memory in a proper and fitting manner.

The book on Pakistan’s founding father is by far the best of its kind. It examines the influences that affected Mr Jinnah’s most crucial decisions. A protégé of the liberalsecularist Gopal Krishna Gokhale, he nevertheless broke with the Indian National Congress and strove for the creation of Pakistan.

Yet even after Pakistan became a reality Jinnah desired all communities to live in harmony with each other. Burke notes that ‘It was not only the plight of the Muslim refugees who had arrived from India that grieved the Quaid-i-Azam deeply. The sad conditions of the Hindus in Pakistan hurt him no less.’ Burke’s magnum opus is a wide ranging review of the British Raj. He and his collaborator Salim Al-Din Quraishi have produced a work of the highest order in which the vast panorama is graphically described.

Starting with the arrival of the early European traders in India and the consequent British conquest, the reader is taken right up to Victoria’s time and then the events of the two world wars. The rise of Indian nationalism and the demand for a separate Muslim state are considered, analysed and assessed in a thoroughly balanced and scientific manner. The major players in the development of the drama are fleshed out and portrayed with remarkable honesty and precision.

The book was researched and written when the authors were based in Britain. They were not beholden to research grants or political pressures from the subcontinent. In simple terms, they were free and independent. Burke and Quraishi were answerable only to the call of intellectual honesty. That is why it is essential reading for any one interested in the subject.

I can quote page after page from it but will reproduce only a few lines here: ‘Before we indulge in throwing stones at British imperialism, let us face the task of looking at our own shortcomings, for it is we South Asians who helped the British to conquer our land and rule over it.’ Readers are reminded of Nehru’s statement to the Indian parliament in 1950: ‘The Industrial Revolution in England was helped tremendously by the original loot from India. Nevertheless, if the British people went ahead, it was due to their great genius… and 100 fine qualities. We do not talk about those qualities; but we talk of the fact that because of our weaknesses they came and conquered India, controlled India and profited by their stay in India. Then we blame them for it while the blame is ours for our failures, stupidity, factions and disruptions in our country.’ Apart from a varied and successful career, Burke Sahib has had a very happy home life. His wife Louise was English who adjusted to her husband’s family with amazing ease. He dedicated A Life of Fulfilment to her.

Now over 100 years old, Burke Sahib is in a private nursing home in England. His daughter Noel who lives nearby visits him regularly. On some days he is lively and remembers old friends and contemporaries who have long gone to their Maker.

This star of Pakistan has lived a full life, a life refulgent with honour and fulfilment.
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regards,
Noman !

Salam,
u people forgot a very imp n esteemed name that is former CJP justice M.R. Kiani.He was an ICS n opted CSP after partition and later on opted higher judiciary (as this was an option in those days for CSP's who had at least 10 year service in CSP and had served 3 years min as a District Judge).and one correction GIK never served as a Naib Tehsildar. He had joined PCS of NWFP in the early 1940's and started his career as an Afsar-e-Maal and first class magistrate.after partition he was encadered to the Defunct CSP, as PCS officers had a quota in it.
best regards

First of all the thread was for the CSPs not for the famous DMGs and commoners. :D
I take this forum for kina nostalgia to remember the era of Laat sahab , who once ruled the subcontinent. :sad
Another csp is Roedad khan .:roll
And another is Akhtar hameed khan :king
He worked as a lecturer at Meerut College before joining the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in 1936. As part of the ICS training, he was sent to read literature and history at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. During the stay, he developed a close friendship with Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Khan married Hameedah Begum (the eldest daughter of Allama Mashriqi) in 1940.
During his ICS career, Khan worked as collector of revenue, a position that brought him into regular contact with living conditions in rural areas of East Bengal The Bengal famine of 1943 and subsequent inadequate handling of the situation by the colonial rulers led him to resign from the Indian Civil Service in 1945. He wrote, "I realised that if I did not escape while I was young and vigorous, I will forever remain in the trap, and terminate as a bureaucratic big wig. During this period, he was influenced by the philosophy of Nietzsche and Mashriqi, and joined the Khaksar Movement.
His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959). It earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the Philippines and an honorary Doctorate of Law from Michigan State University.
In the 1980s he started a bottom up community development initiative of Orangi Pilot Project, based in the outskirts of Karachi, which became a model of participatory development initiatives. He also directed many programmes, from microcredit to self-finance and from housing provision to family planning, for rural communities and urban slums. It earned him international recognition and high honours in Pakistan. Khan was fluent in at least seven languages and dialects. Apart from many scholarly books and articles, he also published a collection of poems and travelogues in Urdu.


Before 1973 CSP were trained in the CSA , where they were taught by retired oxford and cambride laurates.
They were given we feeling. Entrenched in classical , brithish aristrocratic traditions they receive further training on scholarships at harward, oxford and cambrige.
After 1973 there is no such thing as elite training of future masters of pakistan. Compare current CSA to its predecessor british CSA , which was an institution which training and educational standard had no precedent in the history of subcontinent. :cry
India has howwver mantained the aura of its IAAS. Their chief election commissioner is a IAAS officer and they still has their quota in higher judiciary. :snor


Samuel Martin Burke from FSP
CSPs had also a quota in foreign service too.
I dont about india About IAAS I think they also have this previlige DMG in the beginning also can go into foreign servics
Son of abu-al-khair kashfi (THE URDU Lughat SAGA), Abu akif kashfi, i heard did the same

The Legend - Parveen Shakir
 

Parveen Shakir was born on 24 November, 1952 in Karachi, Pakistan. She received two undergraduate degrees -- in English literature and linguistics.

Parveen held MA degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from University of Karachi. She was a teacher at Karachi University and Trinity College, Connecticut, USA, for 9 years before joining the Pakistan Civil Service, where she served in the Customs department. In 1986, she was appointed second secretary, CBR in Islamabad.

In 1990, she taught at Trinity College, Connecticut, USA, and then did her masters in public administration at Harvard University in 1991.

She married Naseer Ali, a doctor by profession, whom she later divorced. In 1994, she died in a car accident at age 42 in Islamabad. She is survived by her son, Syed Murad Ali. Her unique honor was that when she appeared in the Central Superior Services Examiation in 1982 there was a question on her poetry in the Urdu examination.

For more informations about Parveen Shakir's poetry visit:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parveen_Shakir[/url]

umer afridi was csp officer 2 ...
later interior minister ...
offered 2 become governer of NWFP by Nawaz sharif but denied cos of health problem ...

Dr Ghullam Murtaza ... renowned Islamic scholar, former rector international Islamic university

Athar MinAllah ... social and political activist of lawyers movement fame

[QUOTE=aj khan]
Athar MinAllah ... social and political activist of lawyers movement fame[/QUOTE]

Athar MinAllah never joined the civil service of Pakistan but his father was a Civil Servant.His name was Nasrum MinAllah and served with distinction during the tenure of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

Regards

[QUOTE=Mumtaz Hayat Maneka]Athar MinAllah never joined the civil service of Pakistan but his father was a Civil Servant.His name was Nasrum MinAllah and served with distinction during the tenure of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

Regards[/QUOTE]
well you are absolutely right about his father
regarding athar minallah i read this on wikipedia, the link is
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athar_Minallah[/url]

This is what is written there,

[B]"Athar became a lawyer. Akmal and Samar, the former after graduating as a doctor, chose to enter the civil services of Pakistan, in the footsteps of their illustrious father."
[/B]
According to the article his brother Akmal joined the Civil Service not Athar MinAllah.

[QUOTE=Mumtaz Hayat Maneka]This is what is written there,

[B]"Athar became a lawyer. Akmal and Samar, the former after graduating as a doctor, chose to enter the civil services of Pakistan, in the footsteps of their illustrious father."
[/B]
According to the article his brother Akmal joined the Civil Service not Athar MinAllah.[/QUOTE]
Sir you are right regarding his siblings joining the civil service
but the last para of the mentioned article reads like this

"""""
Athar was always interested in politics since his school days. He was a fire-brand yet a distinguished debater and commanded a charming personality. His characteristic smile endeared him to all. But, under that smile and intent gaze, there was astute intelligence and courage. Athar entered the civil services and joined the Pakistan customs. He rose to senior positions in the department but could not abstain from entering the political scene that saw democratic institutions destroyed and dictatorship (however benevolent towards media and others) sap the spirit of the nation. He was a Z A Bhutto lover, as was the whole generation of young people, enthused and fascinated by the man and the phenomenon.............""""

Athar's brief CV
 

Athar Minallah joined the prestigious Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) and after serving for 10 years left the post of additional Collector Customs to join the firm as a partner. athar Minallah brings not only rich taxation experience but also valuable scholastic input. athar completed his law degree from the International Islamic University (Islamabad) and his LLM from University of Cambridge, UK. His areas of interest are taxation and judicial review, He was appointed Minister for Law, Local Government, Parliamentary affairs and Human Rights by the Provincial Government of NWFP (2000-2002). He also was the member of the Task Force constituted by the Federal Government for revamping the Taxation regime in Pakistan. Currently he is the member of the Policy Board of Intellectual Property of Pakistan and Chairman of alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (ADRC) for Sales Tax constituted by the Central Board of Revenue.

Achievements

Professional Qualifications
Licensed to appear as an advocate in the High Courts in Pakistan, 1998.

Educational Qualifications

Cambridge University, U.K. LL.M., Churchill College, 1996-97. awarded Britannia Chevening Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in Law, 1996-97.
International Islamic University, Islamabad LL.B. (Hons.). Obtained Second position in the graduating class of 1986.

Work Experience

Partner, afridi Shah & Minallah, 1997- .
Serving Provincial Minister (Govt. of NWFP) for Law, Local Government, Human Rights, Parliamentary affairs & Rural Development.
Resigned in 1997, as Deputy Collector in the Central Board of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan.
Visiting Professor in Contract Law, University College Islamabad, Islamabad 1997 -.
Provincial Minister (Govt. of NWFP) for Law, Local Government, Human Rights, Parliamentary affairs & Rural Development. 2002

Ashir Azeem
 

Ashir Azeem, the writer of famous drama serial Dhuwan
is also a csp from customs group

1-Khalid Ahmad Khan Kharal ,former federal minister and central leader of PPP ,is also a CSP officer.
2-Shahid Hamid, former Governer Punjab, is also a CSP.

[QUOTE=Saleeqa Batool]1-Khalid Ahmad Khan Kharal ,former federal minister and central leader of PPP ,is also a CSP officer.
2-Shahid Hamid, former Governer Punjab, is also a CSP.[/QUOTE]
Can you provide some detail regarding Shahid Hamid's civil service career?

Farooq Laghari was a CSP officer of early commons when DMG group was called CSP. His photo is still there in the lounge of DMG academy.

In her urdu's paper in CSS, Parveen Shakir must have faced confusion in attempting the question that stated:

[I]Parveen Shakir is delegate poet of women. Comment [/I]

the ex-Governor State Bank, Mr. Ishrat Hussain; the senator and Columnist Shafqat Mahmood and Safdar Mahmood too

i think the famous writer Ibne Insha was from FSP.
Orya Maqbool Jan is from the 12th CTP

Dr Moeed Pirzada , a broadcaster and political analyst, works with Dunya TV network

To my knowledge Sardar Akber Bugti never passed CSS exam. He was trained with CSP through special arrangements.... friends correct me if i am wrong....

The Great man who couldnt pass ICS Exams
 

There have been many intelligent people in Indo Pak who have been bureaucrats but one of the most intelligent persons in History of Indo Pak, whose fire and faith,courage and conviction,statesmanship and shrewdness ,impeccable command of English language and exemplary oratory is peerless i.e [B][I]Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Johar who possessed aforementioned traits was the personality who failed in ICS exams.[/I][/B]

Dr.Aisha Siddeqa,the eminent scholar also passed CSS and so did Abdul Rauf of Geo's 50 Minute,but both did not join the service.

Nawab Akber Khan Bugti was one of the first CSP's of Pakistan.

[QUOTE=mechrose37;159454]Dr.Aisha Siddeqa,the eminent scholar also passed CSS and so did Abdul Rauf of Geo's 50 Minute,but both did not join the service.[/QUOTE]

i think Dr Aisha Siddeqa joined the audit and accounts service of Pakistan before resigning

Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi ( 1901-1973)

Resign from the cozy and coveted job of Deputy Collector and joined the Sindh Hari Party.Comrade Hyder Bux Jatoi was a revolutionary, leftist, peasant leader in Sindh, Pakistan. He is known by his supporters as "Baba-e-Sindh" (Father of Sindh). He was also a Sindhi writer and poet. He was for many years[quantify] the president of the Sindh Hari Committee (Sindh Peasants Committee), a constituent member of the National Awami Party.

can anybody teel me about abdul rauf of Geo's 50 minute .in which group was he allocated and how many years he remained in service.

thanks

Someone earlier named his name, but i wanted to post something more about him.

[B]1. Roedad Khan.[/B]

Roedad Khan (born 28 September, 1923, in District Mardan, British India) is one of the most senior civil servants of Pakistan. He is a retired bureaucrat and political analyst. He is an ethnic Pakhtun of the Yousufzai tribe.

Roedad Khan belonged to the elite District Management Group of the Civil Services of Pakistan. He went on to become the Secretary General of Pakistan, the highest rank in Pakistani bureaucracy. Roedad Khan had held major public offices during the regime of President General Muhammad Zia ul Haq and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Before being appointed as the Secretary General, he held the position of Secretary Federal Ministry of Interior. He is also author of three illustrious books.

Roedad Khan joined the civil service of Pakistan in 1949 and has held several appointments, including those of Chief Secretary Sindh, Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Managing Director Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV), Secretary Information & Broadcasting, Secretary Ministry of Labour, Secretary Ministry of Tourism, Secretary Ministry of Interior, Secretary General Ministry of Interior, Federal Minister of Accountability and Advisor to the Prime Minister and President.

Mushahid Hussain Syed was also topper and never joined..

[QUOTE=axsim;233799]Mushahid Hussain Syed was also topper and never joined..[/QUOTE]

From where did you hear this?


After completion of studies in the United States, mushahid hussain returned to Pakistan and became a member of directing staff at the country’s prestigious training institution for civil servants, the Pakistan Administrative Staff College [B](Not a CSP, and most definitely not a topper)[/B]. He then joined Pakistan’s oldest seat of learning, the Punjab University, as lecturer on international relations in the Political Science Department. He was among the four dissident teachers removed from the university in October 1979 for their campus activism during martial law.

Mushahid Hussain has a Master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University in Washington DC. In Pakistan, he studied at the Forman Christian College in Lahore, from where he received a BA.

Shokat Shah , a famous writer was also a csp,am I right?

ghulam ishaq khan was an ICS officer as well as qudruttullah was also a ics officer but most famous is agha shahi.