Documents Required for Government Jobs in Pakistan: Free Checklist

Almost no recruitment in Pakistan looks at your documents when you apply. You claim your qualification, experience, domicile and any quota in the online form, sit the test on that claim, and the papers are checked later. That is why strong candidates are rejected late: the claim was accepted, the proof was not.

Your own list depends on your answers, but nearly every commission and testing service asks for:

• CNIC, original and valid - or, under 18, the B-form or Juvenile Card.
• A domicile in your own name, of the district in your form. Sindh also wants the PRC (Form-D); AJK PSC's posts are for State Subject holders.
• Your Matric certificate - its date of birth is the one every commission uses - and every certificate and degree up to your qualification, with marks sheets.
• Experience certificates, one per employer, if the post asks for experience.
• Departmental permission (NOC or DPC) if you are a government employee.
• An HEC or IBCC equivalence certificate for a foreign degree, O / A levels or a religious-board sanad.
• Proof of any quota or relaxation you claim, photographs, the call letter and a printout of your online form.

From the commissions' own lists - FPSC's "major parameters of rejection", PPSC's grounds of rejection and SPSC's rejected and deficient applications:

• The result was not officially declared by the closing date (FPSC, PPSC, SPSC, BPSC).
• No domicile of your own, or not of the district or province the post is for.
• A government employee without departmental permission, or whose permission was refused.
• Photocopies that differ from the originals (FPSC), or documents that look tampered with (SPSC).
• Experience too short, not relevant, from before the qualification, or not properly certified.
• No equivalence certificate for a foreign or equivalent qualification.
• Over or under the age limit by even a day, or no proof of the date of birth.
• Documents not sent in time - KPPSC gives 15 days after the test, BPSC 10.

Every body wants the originals at the final check. What differs is the copies. "Attested" here means signed and stamped by an officer - not HEC attestation, which HEC says has nothing to do with recruitment and which FPSC and PPSC do not ask for.

• FPSC: two sets, each copy attested with the officer's signature and a stamp showing the officer's name.
• PPSC: two sets of photocopies at the interview for posts up to BS-18; two attested sets by the closing date for BS-19 and BS-20.
• KPPSC: attested copies with its Documents Submission Proforma - or unattested ones with an affidavit that they are genuine.
• SPSC: scans with the application, then one set attested by an officer of BPS-17 or above at the interview.
• BPSC: one set verified by the issuing board or university and attested by a gazetted officer.
• AJK PSC: attested copies before the interview, and the originals with one set a day before it.
• NTS, PTS, OTS and ETEA: the department's advertisement decides.

Every commission judges eligibility as it stood on the closing date, not on the day documents are checked. Your result must have been declared by then; your domicile issued by then (PPSC alone accepts one applied for before it, with proof); and experience counts only from your qualification up to that date.

Start the day you apply, not the day the call letter comes - several of these take weeks.

1. Read the advertisement's conditions for your post: the qualification, the domicile it accepts, the age limit and the closing date.
2. Check that your name, father's name and date of birth match exactly on your CNIC, Matric certificate and degree.
3. Check the dates: your result, domicile and any certificate you rely on must be on or before the closing date.
4. Start what takes time now: equivalence, a domicile in your own name, departmental permission, board or university verification.
5. Ask each employer for an experience certificate in your commission's format, with exact dates and duties.
6. Fill the online form exactly as your documents read, and print it.
7. Copy from your originals, check each copy against its original, and have them attested as your commission asks.
8. Put everything in your checklist's order and tick each one off.

Each page below opens the checklist on that body and sets out what it publishes - its forms, deadlines and reasons for rejection.

• FPSC documents required
• PPSC interview documents
• KPPSC documents submission proforma
• SPSC documents required
• Balochistan PSC (BPSC) documents
• AJK PSC documents
• NTS, PTS, OTS and ETEA documents
• Check your age limit and relaxation

1. Choose who is recruiting - FPSC, PPSC, KPPSC, SPSC, BPSC, AJK PSC, a testing service or a department - and the kind of post.
2. Answer short questions about your domicile, government service, qualification, experience and any quota. Each is a tap, and nothing leaves your device.
3. You get your own list - every document, original or copy, and how many copies this body asks for - to tick off, print or save as a PDF.
4. Above it are the risks in your answers: red for a listed reason to reject, amber to check, green to have ready - each with what to do and the official rule.

• Relying on a domicile in your father's name - FPSC rejects it outright.
• Photocopies made from an old version of a document, so they no longer match the original.
• Counting experience from before the qualification, or private-sector experience without proof that the firm was registered (PPSC).
• Waiting for the call letter to apply for equivalence or verification: HEC publishes no processing time, and BPSC gives 10 days, KPPSC 15.