Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Jobs 2026 — 8 Balochistan Quota Posts, Walk-in Interviews 16–24 November

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) — Quetta, Hub and Gwadar, Balochistan (walk-in interview venues)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 30 Oct 2026 19 min read

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has announced eight vacancies under the Balochistan quota for candidates holding a Balochistan domicile, and the recruitment will run entirely through walk-in interviews rather than an online application or a written test. The posts are Assistant in BPS-15 with three seats, Stenotypist in BPS-14 with three seats, Upper Division Clerk (UDC) in BPS-13 with one seat, and Lower Division Clerk (LDC) in BPS-11 with one seat, and the quota split reserves one seat for women in each of the Assistant and Stenotypist categories, with the remaining seats on merit. Interviews will be held at three venues across Balochistan: the Regional Tax Office on Spinny Road in Quetta on 16, 17 and 18 November 2026; the FBR Tax Facilitation Centre at Civic Centre on G.T. Road in Hub on 20 and 21 November 2026; and Customs House at the Gwadar International Terminal Limited (GITL) on Pak-China Friendship Road in Gwadar on 23 and 24 November 2026, in each case from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. No written or screening test will be conducted, and no online application is required: eligible candidates appear in person at a venue of their convenience with their original documents and one complete set of attested copies, and their documents are scrutinised before the interview. Two date points in this round need careful reading. First, one secondary listing calls 16 November 2026 the last date, but 16 November is the first interview day at Quetta, not a closing date for applications, and the interview window runs through 24 November at Gwadar; this article therefore carries 24 November 2026, the last interview day, as the last date, and advises candidates to attend the earliest venue they can reach rather than waiting for the final day. Second, the age limits are calculated on 16 November 2026, the first interview date, and the advertised maximum ages already include five years of general age relaxation. The advertisement appeared in the Daily Jang newspaper on 30 October 2026, and the FBR headquarters for queries is on Constitution Avenue, G-5, Islamabad, telephone 051-9204915, with the FBR helpline on 051-111-772-772.

About Federal Board of Revenue (FBR)

The Federal Board of Revenue is the federal government's revenue authority, responsible for collecting federal taxes and duties, including income tax, sales tax, federal excise and customs duties, and for administering the tax system through its field formations across the country. Its headquarters, FBR House, stands on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad, and its field network includes Regional Tax Offices, Large Taxpayer Offices, corporate tax offices and customs stations, of which the Quetta, Hub and Gwadar venues in this round are examples: the Regional Tax Office in Quetta serves the provincial capital's taxpayers, the Tax Facilitation Centre in Hub serves the industrial corridor town on the Karachi-Quetta highway, and the Customs House at Gwadar serves the port city where customs work is central to the local economy. FBR recruits clerical and administrative staff in the Basic Pay Scales for these field offices through quota-based rounds, and the Balochistan quota exists because federal recruitment rules reserve a share of posts for candidates domiciled in each province and region, so that federal offices in a province are staffed in part by people from that province. A walk-in round of this kind is different from FBR's larger, portal-based recruitments: there is no application form to submit in advance, no roll-number slip and no written test, and the interview panel itself is the selection stage, which is why the advertisement puts so much weight on documents. Candidates who have followed FBR recruitment before will recognise the pattern of this notice: BPS-11 to BPS-15 clerical grades, a Balochistan-only domicile condition, NITB IT training as a post-appointment condition for the clerical grades, and the standard federal terms that the organisation may increase or decrease the number of vacancies and may cancel the process in whole or in part. What is unusual, and welcome for applicants, is the absence of a written test, which removes the long waiting period between application and result that characterises most federal recruitments, and replaces it with a single visit to a venue with documents in hand.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

Eight posts are open, all reserved for Balochistan domicile holders, and the table below gives each post's grade, seat count, quota split, qualification and age limit exactly as reported from the advertisement. The two larger categories, Assistant and Stenotypist, each carry a women's quota seat, while the single-seat UDC and LDC posts are on merit. A candidate should first match the domicile condition, then the post's own qualification line, and only then choose a venue, because the venue does not change the post applied for: a candidate may attend at Quetta, Hub or Gwadar according to convenience, and the post and its conditions are the same at every venue.

• Assistant: The senior clerical post of the round, with two seats on merit and one seat reserved for women. Assistants in a tax office handle correspondence, files, noting and drafting, and coordination between sections, and the post suits a graduate who writes clearly, keeps records accurately and can work through the six-week NITB IT training after appointment.
• Stenotypist: The shorthand post of the round, with two seats on merit and one seat reserved for women. Stenotypists take dictation, transcribe proceedings and correspondence, and type official documents, so the speeds printed in the advertisement are the real test: 80 words per minute in shorthand and 40 in typing, not an approximate claim.
• Upper Division Clerk (UDC): The single merit seat among the clerical grades. UDCs handle the more responsible clerical work of a section, including case files, registers and correspondence, and the three-week NITB IT training after appointment is a condition of service, not an optional course.
• Lower Division Clerk (LDC): The entry clerical post of the round and the only one open at Matric level, with a single merit seat. LDCs handle diary and dispatch, filing, record maintenance and routine typing, and the 30 words per minute typing speed is a printed requirement that a candidate should be able to demonstrate, not merely claim.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Only candidates holding a valid domicile of Balochistan province are eligible; the round is a Balochistan quota recruitment and no other domicile qualifies.
• Assistant (BPS-15): Bachelor's degree from an HEC-recognised university; six-week Basic IT Training Course including MS Office conducted by NITB to be completed before the end of the probation period; age 18–33 years including five years of general age relaxation.
• Stenotypist (BPS-14): Intermediate qualification; minimum shorthand speed of 80 words per minute; minimum typing speed of 40 words per minute; computer literacy; age 18–30 years including five years of general age relaxation.
• Upper Division Clerk (BPS-13): Intermediate qualification; three-week Basic IT Training Course including MS Office conducted by NITB to be completed before the end of the probation period; age 18–30 years including five years of general age relaxation.
• Lower Division Clerk (BPS-11): Matriculation; minimum typing speed of 30 words per minute; three-week Basic IT Training Course including MS Office conducted by NITB to be completed before the end of the probation period; age 18–30 years including five years of general age relaxation.
• Age is calculated on 16 November 2026, the first interview date; additional relaxation may apply under the applicable government rules for the categories named in the advertisement, including Balochistan candidates, retired armed forces personnel, government servants with at least two years of continuous service, persons with disabilities, and widows, sons or daughters of deceased civil servants, subject to the conditions stated in the advertisement.
• Government employees must apply through the proper channel and bring the departmental certificate or No Objection Certificate to the interview.
• No written or screening test will be conducted; selection is through the walk-in interview after document scrutiny.

Eligibility for this round is decided in a strict order, and a candidate who fails at any step cannot be cured by strength at a later one, so the order matters more than the enthusiasm. The first and absolute condition is domicile: only a valid Balochistan domicile qualifies, because the eight seats are Balochistan quota seats, and a candidate domiciled in another province cannot be accommodated by attending a Balochistan venue. The second condition is the post's own qualification line, and the four posts draw it differently enough that a candidate should not assume that eligibility for one post implies eligibility for another. The Assistant post asks for a bachelor's degree from an HEC-recognised university, which means the degree must come from a recognised institution, and a degree from an unrecognised institution does not meet the line whatever its subject. The Stenotypist post asks for Intermediate plus two speeds, and the speeds are the substance of the post: 80 words per minute in shorthand and 40 in typing, together with computer literacy, so a candidate who types well but has no shorthand, or who writes shorthand slowly, does not meet the line. The UDC post asks for Intermediate, and the LDC post asks for Matric plus a typing speed of 30 words per minute, and for both clerical posts the NITB IT training is a post-appointment condition: the three-week course for UDC and LDC and the six-week course for Assistant must be completed before the end of the probation period, and the advertisement states that failure to complete the mandatory training within the prescribed period may result in termination of service, so a candidate who cannot commit to that training should not apply. The third condition is age, calculated on 16 November 2026, and the advertised maximum ages already include five years of general age relaxation: 33 years for Assistant and 30 years for the other three posts. Further relaxation categories are named in the advertisement, including five years for Balochistan candidates under the specified federal provisions for BPS-15 and below, relaxation for retired armed forces personnel based on years of service subject to a 15-year maximum, ten years for government servants with at least two years of continuous service up to the age of 55, ten years for persons with disabilities in BPS-15 and below, and five years for widows, sons or daughters of deceased civil servants under the specified conditions, and a candidate claiming any of these must carry the supporting evidence to the interview. The fourth condition is documentary: original documents are scrutinised before the interview, and a candidate without complete and proper documentation may not be permitted to appear, so the interview is not a stage at which a missing certificate can be promised later. Finally, the channel condition is that there is no channel at all before the interview: no online form, no postal application and no test, and a candidate who waits for a roll-number slip or a call letter will miss the round entirely, because attendance at a venue on its dates is itself the application.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no salary figure for any of the four posts, and this article therefore states none. What the advertisement does print is the grade for each post, BPS-15 for Assistant, BPS-14 for Stenotypist, BPS-13 for UDC and BPS-11 for LDC, and pay will follow those Basic Pay Scales under the federal government's rules, with the allowances that attach to a federal posting. Because the posts are regular government posts rather than contract or daily-wage engagements, the grade carries the service structure that attaches to it, including the NITB training condition described above and the pension and benefits framework that applies to federal civil servants, even though the advertisement does not convert any grade into a rupee amount. Any monthly salary number circulating for these posts on a job board is an estimate carried over from another round, another scale or another organisation, not a fact from this advertisement, and applicants should not plan household budgets around it. The advertisement also prints no application fee, and this article states none; the only money condition the advertisement states is a negative one, and it matters for planning: no travel allowance and no daily allowance is admissible for attending the interview, so a candidate travelling to Quetta, Hub or Gwadar bears the cost personally. Candidates who need a salary figure before deciding should ask the FBR headquarters or the venue office for the current BPS-11 to BPS-15 position rather than relying on a number invented by a secondary site.

Selection Process

There is no written test and no screening test in this round, and that single fact defines the whole selection process. The process has two stages, both on the same visit. First, documents are scrutinised: the candidate presents original educational certificates and degrees, the original CNIC, the original Balochistan domicile or residential certificate, and one complete set of attested photocopies, together with any skill or qualification certificates and, for government employees, the departmental certificate or No Objection Certificate, and only candidates whose documents support their claim proceed. Second, the interview itself is held at the venue, on the dates printed for that venue, between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM, and the panel judges the candidate for the post applied for, including, for the Stenotypist post, the shorthand and typing ability that the advertisement prints as a requirement. Candidates should arrive early, because document verification takes time and the interview window closes at 3:00 PM, and a candidate who arrives with an incomplete set of documents risks being turned away before the interview stage. No travel or daily allowance is paid. Because there is no test syllabus and no call letter, preparation should concentrate on the post itself and on the documents: for Assistant, clear expression, file and correspondence work, and basic computer use; for Stenotypist, shorthand and typing practice at the printed speeds; for UDC and LDC, record-keeping, diary and dispatch work, and typing accuracy. The organisation reserves the right to cancel the recruitment process in whole or in part, or to increase or decrease the number of vacancies, and incomplete documentation may result in disqualification at the scrutiny stage.

Documents Required

• Original Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC).
• Original educational certificates and degrees: bachelor's degree for Assistant, Intermediate certificate for Stenotypist and UDC, Matric certificate for LDC.
• Original Balochistan domicile certificate or residential certificate.
• One complete set of attested photocopies of all required documents.
• Shorthand and typing skill certificates or evidence of the printed speeds, for the Stenotypist post, and typing speed evidence for the LDC post, where available.
• Computer literacy evidence, for the Stenotypist post, where available.
• Departmental certificate or No Objection Certificate, for candidates already working in a government organisation.
• Recent passport-size photographs, as the venue panel may require.
• Any additional document the advertisement or the venue panel asks for at the scrutiny stage.
• A note of the venue and date attended, kept for reference, since there is no online application record for this round.

Terms & Conditions

Only Balochistan domicile holders are eligible, recruitment is through walk-in interviews only, and no written or screening test will be conducted. Original educational documents will be checked before the interview, and candidates without complete and proper documentation may not be permitted to appear. Government employees must apply through the proper channel and bring the required departmental certificate or No Objection Certificate. No travel allowance and no daily allowance is admissible for attending the interview. The advertised maximum ages already include five years of general age relaxation, and age is calculated on 16 November 2026. Assistant appointees must complete a six-week NITB Basic IT Training Course and UDC and LDC appointees a three-week course, including MS Office, before the end of the probation period, failing which service may be terminated. FBR reserves the right to cancel the recruitment process in whole or in part, or to increase or decrease the number of vacancies, and incomplete documentation may result in disqualification. Candidates should verify the latest position on fbr.gov.pk or with FBR headquarters before travelling.

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