District & Sessions Judge Upper Chitral Jobs 2026 — 8 Posts via ETEA (Assistant, Stenotypist & Junior Clerk), Apply by 20 November

District & Sessions Judge, Upper Chitral — Upper Chitral

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 29 Oct 2026 13 min read

The office of the District and Sessions Judge, Upper Chitral, has announced eight posts through the Educational Testing and Evaluation Agency (ETEA) under Project 881. The three titles are Assistant in BPS-16 (one post), Stenotypist in BPS-14 (five posts) and Junior Clerk in BPS-11 (two posts). The last date to apply is 20 November 2026, and applications are submitted online through the ETEA portal after NADRA e-Sahulat CNIC verification, with the fee paid through the Easypaisa app or an Easypaisa agent or at a UBL branch. Only candidates holding the domicile of District Upper Chitral can apply, and the age limit is 18 to 30 years for all three posts.

A sourcing note belongs in the open, because this recruitment is not yet carried in the same detail by several independent listings. The post-wise counts and the age limit rest mainly on one detailed secondary listing, but they are corroborated at the total level: Pakera's ETEA project table gives eight seats for the project, and jobsalert confirms the same three titles, the same 20 November 2026 deadline and the same fee channel. The posting date is not confirmed in any source seen, so this article leaves it empty rather than guessing a date. Likewise, the exact shorthand and typing speeds for the Stenotypist posts are not confirmed, so no speed figure is given for that title, and the fee amount is not confirmed, so no rupee figure is given: applicants pay exactly the amount their own deposit slip shows.

About District & Sessions Judge, Upper Chitral

The District and Sessions Judge is the head of the district judiciary: the district courts that hear civil and criminal cases at the district level, under the supervision of the Peshawar High Court. In each district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the District and Sessions Judge's office runs the district courts, the sessions courts and the supporting registry, and it depends on a small staff of ministerial officers to keep that work moving. The Assistant, the Stenotypist and the Junior Clerk are the three grades of that ministerial staff, and each does a different part of the court's daily work.

Upper Chitral is one of the province's northernmost districts, carved out as its own district in the high valleys north of Lower Chitral, and its district courts serve a scattered population across mountain valleys where travel to a court is often long. For a district like this, court staff recruited from the district itself matter more than usual: the staff know the area, the languages and the distances, and the domicile condition in this advertisement reflects that. A court post in Upper Chitral is therefore a district-cadre post: the staff serve the district's own courts, and the recruitment is limited to the district's own domicile holders. Applicants should read these eight posts in that light — steady district judiciary work, in the district's courts, for candidates of Upper Chitral itself.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

Eight posts are open in three titles, all in the office of the District and Sessions Judge, Upper Chitral, all for Upper Chitral domicile holders, and all recruited through ETEA Project 881. The table below gives each title with its seat count, grade and qualification exactly as corroborated, and says plainly where a detail is not confirmed.

• Assistant: The senior ministerial post in this recruitment. Assistants handle court office work at a supervisory level: files, correspondence, case records and the registry work that keeps the district courts running in an orderly way.
• Stenotypist: The largest group in the advertisement, with five seats. Stenotypists take down dictation in shorthand and type court proceedings, orders and correspondence. The exact shorthand and typing speeds are not confirmed, so no speed figure is stated here and none is borrowed from other courts.
• Junior Clerk: The entry grade of the court staff. Junior Clerks maintain files, registers and dak, prepare case lists and assist the court office. Needs Matric or an equivalent qualification plus a typing speed of 30 words per minute.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Domicile of District Upper Chitral only; candidates domiciled elsewhere do not qualify.
• Assistant (BPS-16): a Bachelor's degree from a recognised university.
• Stenotypist (BPS-14): Intermediate plus shorthand and typing skills; exact speeds are not confirmed, so no speed figure is claimed.
• Junior Clerk (BPS-11): Matric or equivalent plus a typing speed of 30 words per minute.
• Age between 18 and 30 years for all three posts.
• All eight posts are recruited through ETEA under Project 881.
• Each post needs a separate application with a separate fee, where an applicant applies for more than one title.
• Degrees and certificates must be from recognised boards, universities or institutions; foreign qualifications need equivalence where claimed.
• Documents are not sent to ETEA with the application; copies are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, when the appointing authority asks for them.

Eligibility for the Upper Chitral court posts turns on three conditions, and all three must be met together. The first is domicile, and it is absolute: only candidates holding the domicile of District Upper Chitral can apply. This is a district-cadre recruitment for the district's own courts, and the detailed listing is explicit that applicants from other districts do not qualify, even if they hold the right qualification. Candidates from Lower Chitral or any other district should not apply for these eight posts, however strong their qualifications, because the domicile condition will end the application at scrutiny.

The second condition is the qualification for the title applied for, and it differs sharply by title. The Assistant post, the only BPS-16 post, needs a Bachelor's degree. The Stenotypist posts need Intermediate plus shorthand and typing skills, and here honesty requires a flag: the exact shorthand speed and typing speed for the Stenotypist title are not confirmed in the sources seen, so this article gives no speed figure for that title and does not borrow speeds from other district courts, whose advertisements often print different figures. Stenotypist applicants must read the exact speeds in the ETEA advertisement itself before paying the fee, because the fee is non-refundable. The Junior Clerk posts are the most precisely described at the entry level: Matric or an equivalent qualification plus a typing speed of 30 words per minute, a figure that is confirmed and is stated as such.

The third condition is age: 18 to 30 years for all three posts, as given by the detailed listing. Applicants should check the ETEA advertisement for any relaxation that the rules allow, because this article states the 18-to-30 band as reported and does not add a relaxation figure that is not confirmed. One practical point matters for applicants who qualify for two titles: each title needs its own application and its own fee, so a candidate applying for two titles must complete the whole process, and pay, twice. Finally, the posting date of this advertisement is not confirmed, so no posting date is claimed; the only date applicants need to act on is the last date, 20 November 2026.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no monthly salary figure, so this article gives no rupee amount and no estimate. What is certain is the grade structure: Assistant in BPS-16, Stenotypist in BPS-14 and Junior Clerk in BPS-11, of the provincial government pay structure. In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government's pay system, a BPS post carries the basic pay scale of that grade together with the allowances the provincial government notifies for the grade and station, and pay rises with the annual increments and revisions that apply to the scale. Because the advertisement does not print a figure, any website or social media post quoting an exact monthly salary for these eight posts is adding information the advertisement does not contain. The honest comparison is with other posts in the same grades in the province's district judiciary and district offices, which carry the same scale and allowance structure, so the posts should be judged on regular district judiciary service in Upper Chitral and on the grade of the title applied for rather than on a promised figure. No application-fee amount is confirmed either; applicants pay the prescribed fee shown on their own deposit slip for each title applied for.

Selection Process

Selection runs through ETEA under Project 881. Applicants create a profile on the ETEA portal, verify their CNIC at a NADRA E-Sahulat outlet, select Project 881 and their title, print the deposit slip and pay the prescribed fee through the Easypaisa app, an Easypaisa agent or a UBL branch, as the slip directs. ETEA then issues a roll number slip, and candidates are informed by SMS when it is available to download and print; the test date, time and venue are printed on the roll number slip, and no separate call letter is sent by post. Only candidates who qualify the screening test are asked for copies of their documents for scrutiny by the appointing authority. The office of the District and Sessions Judge, not ETEA, makes the final appointment decision from the qualified candidates, and typing or shorthand proficiency, where the title requires it, is tested as the advertisement provides.

Documents Required

• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Domicile certificate of District Upper Chitral.
• Educational certificates for the title applied for (Bachelor's degree, Intermediate, or Matric, as applicable).
• Shorthand and typing certificates or evidence of shorthand and typing skills, for Stenotypist applicants.
• Typing speed certificate or evidence of 30 words per minute typing, for Junior Clerk applicants.
• ETEA profile printout and the stamped original deposit slip (candidate copy).
• E-Sahulat CNIC verification token record.
• Recent passport-size photographs.
• Experience certificates, where the applicant claims any.
• HEC or board equivalence certificate, for any foreign qualification claimed.
• Original documents for verification at the interview or scrutiny stage.
• Any age-relaxation certificate claimed under the applicable rules.

Terms & Conditions

The advertisement carries the standard conditions of an ETEA-run district recruitment. Only candidates holding Upper Chitral domicile qualify, and the 18-to-30 age band applies to all three titles as reported. No TA or DA is admissible for the test or interview unless the appointing authority states otherwise. Documents are collected from candidates who qualify the screening test, and a false document or a domicile that does not match the CNIC can lead to disqualification at scrutiny. ETEA does not accept late applications, and incomplete applications are not considered. The appointing authority reserves the right to manage the recruitment process as the rules allow, including cancelling or re-advertising a title if the rules require it.

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