I want to know that what are these COMMON. i am very curious to know about that. kindly answer in detail. jazaka`ALLAH.

Commoner are group of CSS qualified people, who are allocated in one of twelve groups of Civil Service of Pakistan. Their initial training is held jointly in Civil Services Academy, Walton, Lahore, where they are called Commoners. It is so because they get a Common Training without specific to any group. After completion of their Common Training they go to their respective specialized academies for Special Training related to their own group/service.

I hope you would have understood.

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thank you sir for detailed ans but there z still a question ,coming through my mind. what is the reason behind their calling of 39th common etc.? jazaka`ALLAH.

The method started in 1973 and the officers passed out that year were named 1st Common.

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AoA,

The British India had a central superior civil service system known as Indian Civil Service (ICS), and after partition, Pakistan converted this nomenclature to Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) which remained continued for many years. Notably, the Foreign Service, Police Service, Custom Service, Accounts Service, Economic Service etc. were different then this CSP service, mean that CSP was the predecessor of current PAS/former DMG and examinations were held separately for CSP and Foreign Service etc.

After fall of Dhakka in 1971, Z.A Bhutto became the Chief Executive/Chief Martial Law Administrator and started reforms in many sectors including the civil services. He had got an impression that lot of CSPs are proud, bigot, power hungry, greedy and they act as a power hub/pressure group etc, he sent many CSPs home including many able officers…

The government under Z.A. Bhutto made administrative reforms and a new civil structure was developed, whereby a central examination was prescribed for entry into civil services. And Civil Service Act and other allied rules /regulations were also prescribed in 1973. Initially after central examination all probationers were required to undergo a training program at Civil Service Academy Lahore. Prior to this course, nobody was to be allocated any group and they were allocated groups after completion of that central training programme that is why that training programme was named Common Training Program and probationers were called commoners. Mean a probationer was not allocated any group before completion of said training and everybody was doing training together as a common civil servant and their occupational groups were decided as per their performance in training and their aptitude as well as per the whims/strings of seniors….. etc.

However, after some time this system was abolished and allocations were made as per merit position after the entry examination. But the terminology of commoner kept working and now by Common Training Program it is meant that the training program which is common for every occupational group and such a probationer officer is called commoner. Since, the commoner system was started in 1973 so first group was named 1st Common, and 1974, 1975.. , 2nd, 3rd and so on.

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thank you sir for such detail...and answer but i am confused at a point that is : agar they are still called as commoners and get a common training so where do they get this from and are they get this training together? moreover , if these groups (foreign,police etc) were seperate from csp then what was csp responsible for then? hope i have not bothered you sir and you will reply with same generosity.

After these administrative reforms, the newly amalgamated structure having various occupational groups was named CSP, while nomenclature of previous CSP was changed to DMG. To be precise, the previous CSP (pre-1973) was responsible for all works, for which the current PAS /former DMG is responsible.

"agar they are still called as commoners and get a common training so where do they get this from" sorry did not get you. What do you want to ask? As of today, a commoner is a probationer civil servant (of any occupational group), who is undergoing CTP (Common Training Program) at CSA (Civil Services Academy).

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"Common" is only the title of CSP Officers. e-g "41st Common" means 41st batch of CSP officers. There is no link between this word "Common" and its dictionary meaning. In CSS it is represented as a title. All officers of a particular batch/common get training from Civil Services Academy Lahore.

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thank you sir i got all my answers expt one i want to know that do they get training at the same time at same platform. e.g does a dmg gets this ctp along with fsp member? hope i have made you clear my query.thank you.

Civil Services Academy, Lahore.

Yes

They are allocated into different groups. After CTP, they undergo STP (Specialized Training Program) in their own professional academies and institutes.

PAS - Civil Services Academy - Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam Campus.
PSP - National Police Academy
PAAS - Audit and Accounts Training Institute, Lahore
IRS - Directorate General of Training and Research, Lahore
FSP - Foreign Service Academy, Islamabad
CTG - Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development
IG - Information Service Academy
MLCG - CIMLA, R A Bazar Lahore
OMG - Secretariat Training Institute
PG - Postal Staff College, Islamabad
RCTG - Paksitan Railways Academy, Walton, Lahore

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