ICS cadre carried over into Pakistan as the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP)

G-CS-02 · gap-civil-service

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"The ICS cadre became the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP), with minor modifications"; the Indian Police Service became the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) — ICS cadre carried over into Pakistan as the Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) · 1947 onward (study published April 2013)GIZ Support to Good Governance in Pakistan Programme, A Study on the Civil Service Structure, Civil Servants Training and an Overview of NCGR (hosted by Local Government Dept, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) · 1947 onward (study published April 2013)Source named — not yet verified

Source

GIZ Support to Good Governance in Pakistan Programme, A Study on the Civil Service Structure, Civil Servants Training and an Overview of NCGR (hosted by Local Government Dept, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) — https://lgkp.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Report-on-civil-service-structure-civil-servants-training-and-NCGR-2013.pdf. Matched to the source page by an automated research pass on 6 Oct 2026; not yet checked by a person..

What it proves

Pakistan inherited the colonial cadre system almost wholesale rather than designing a new service, supporting the continuity-of-colonial-structure argument.

civil service of pakistancspindian civil servicecolonial legacycadre systemindependence

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