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Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) Jobs 2026 — 5 Balochistan Quota Posts

Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) — Balochistan (district-level recruitment; Karachi is only the correspondence address)

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 29 Oct 2026 Updated: 30 Oct 2026 17 min read

The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) has advertised five regular posts reserved for candidates holding a Balochistan local or domicile certificate, under advertisement reference PID(I)3834/26 published in the Daily Jang on 29 October 2026. The five seats are one Superintendent, two Upper Division Clerks, one Lower Division Clerk and one Staff Car Driver, recruited at district level across Balochistan through the National Job Portal and the province's District Employment Cells. The advertisement gives its deadline only as within fifteen days of publication, with no printed calendar date; counting fifteen days from 29 October 2026 gives Friday 13 November 2026, and this article labels that date as counted throughout, because a different counting method would shift it by a day. Applicants should therefore verify the closing date against the National Job Portal listing or their District Employment Cell before treating it as final. Selection runs through a walk-in interview with no entry test and no written test at any stage, only shortlisted candidates are called, original documents are compulsory at the interview, and no travel or daily allowance is paid. The recruitment office for correspondence is the Assistant Director (Estt-II), TDAP, Finance and Trade Centre, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, but Karachi is not the place of posting: these are Balochistan quota posts, and only Balochistan domicile holders can apply.

About Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP)

The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan is an autonomous body working under the administrative control of the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan, and its mandate is the development and promotion of the country's trade, above all its exports. TDAP works with exporters, businesses and trade bodies to open market access, organise trade promotion activity and support the firms that carry Pakistani goods abroad, and its offices and trade centres serve as the point of contact between the government and the exporting community. That mandate explains why an authority whose public face is exhibitions and exporters also needs a steady establishment cadre: superintendents to run sections, upper and lower division clerks to handle the files, correspondence and records on which trade facilitation depends, and staff car drivers to keep its field and office movement running. The authority recruits for these establishment posts on its own TDAP pay scales, which is why the advertisement prints TPS grades with basic pay scale equivalents rather than plain BPS grades, and why the grades in the table below must be read exactly as printed. TDAP's recruitment for this round is organised at district level in Balochistan, with newly established District Employment Cells supporting the process, so that eligible residents of the province can apply near home rather than travelling to Karachi. The Karachi address in the advertisement is the authority's correspondence address for the recruitment office, not a posting station, and applicants who read it as a Karachi job will misunderstand the round. For Balochistan candidates, this is a small but genuinely regular federal-autonomous-body recruitment: five permanent-scale establishment seats, open only to the province's own domicile holders, with no written test standing between the applicant and the interview.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

The round carries exactly five seats, and the post table and the overview total agree: one plus two plus one plus one. All five are regular posts on TDAP scales, all five are reserved for Balochistan local or domicile certificate holders, and all five are recruited at district level. The table below gives each post's grade, qualification and age line exactly as the advertisement states them, including the Balochistan addition that lifts every age ceiling by five years.

• Superintendent: The senior establishment post of the round, running a section's administrative work; a graduate with solid office software skill fits the printed test, while a degree without that skill leaves a gap.
• Upper Division Clerk (UDC): Two seats, the largest share of the round; the same graduate-plus-office-skill test as the Superintendent post, with a lower age ceiling, so check the total for this post rather than assuming the senior post's ceiling.
• Lower Division Clerk (LDC): The Intermediate-level clerical seat; typing speed is listed as preferable rather than compulsory, but a candidate at 30 words per minute holds a clear edge over a slower typist.
• Staff Car Driver: The only post in the round that asks for no higher education; driving skill and a valid licence sit at the centre, and the Balochistan domicile condition applies here exactly as it applies to the other four posts.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Only candidates holding a valid Balochistan local or domicile certificate may apply; the quota closes this round to every other domicile.
• Superintendent (TPS-04, equivalent to BS-16): minimum 14 years of education from an HEC-recognised institution, with proficiency in MS Office and preferably internet use; age limit 30 years including general relaxation plus 5 years Balochistan addition, total 35 years.
• Upper Division Clerk (UDC) (TPS-07, equivalent to BS-13): minimum 14 years of education from an HEC-recognised institution, with proficiency in MS Office and preferably internet use; age limit 27 years including general relaxation plus 5 years Balochistan addition, total 32 years.
• Lower Division Clerk (LDC) (TPS-08, equivalent to BS-11): Intermediate or an equivalent qualification from a recognised Board, with proficiency in MS Office and preferably internet use and a typing speed of 30 words per minute preferable; age limit 25 years including general relaxation plus 5 years Balochistan addition, total 30 years.
• Staff Car Driver (TPS-09, equivalent to BS-04): Matriculation and a valid driving licence; age limit 25 years including general relaxation plus 5 years Balochistan addition, total 30 years.
• Applications must be submitted within 15 days of the publication of the advertisement, through the National Job Portal dedicated link or through the applicant's respective District Employment Cell in Balochistan.
• Selection is through a walk-in interview only; there is no entry test and no written test at any stage, and only shortlisted candidates are called for interview.
• Original documents must be presented at the interview; incomplete applications and applications received after the window closes will not be considered.

Eligibility for this round turns on three gates, and all three must be passed together: domicile, the post's own education and skill line, and the post's own age total. Domicile is the first and hardest gate, because it is a quota condition rather than a preference: only a candidate holding a Balochistan local or domicile certificate can be considered, and a candidate from any other province, however strong the qualification, falls outside the round. The second gate is post-specific, and the advertisement draws it with unusual clarity. The Superintendent and the two UDC seats both ask for at least fourteen years of education from an institution recognised by the Higher Education Commission, together with proficiency in MS Office and preferably internet use; the difference between them is grade and age, not qualification, so a graduate with office software skill may fit both posts and should choose by age and by the number of seats. The LDC seat drops the education bar to Intermediate or an equivalent qualification from a recognised Board, keeps the MS Office and internet preference, and adds a typing speed of thirty words per minute as a preferable skill rather than a compulsory one; that wording matters, because a candidate below that speed is not automatically disqualified, but will stand behind a candidate who meets it. The Staff Car Driver seat is the round's most accessible post on paper — Matriculation plus a valid driving licence — and it is also the post where a practical check matters most: the licence must be valid at the time of application and interview, and an expired or wrong-category licence is a straightforward reason for rejection. The third gate is age, and the advertisement states each total in full rather than leaving the applicant to add relaxations: the Superintendent total is thirty-five years, the UDC total thirty-two years, and the LDC and driver totals thirty years each, in every case built from a base age including general relaxation plus five additional years for Balochistan candidates. A thirty-three-year-old Balochistan candidate therefore fits the Superintendent total but sits above the UDC total, so post choice changes the outcome and must be made against the totals, not the base ages. Finally, the application route itself is part of eligibility in practice: the advertisement accepts two routes, the dedicated link on the National Job Portal and the applicant's respective District Employment Cell, and an application that reaches neither route inside the fifteen-day window is not an application at all, whatever the candidate's merit.

Salary & Benefits

The advertisement prints no salary figure for any of the five posts, and this article therefore states none. What it does print is the grade structure, and that structure is the honest guide to pay: the posts sit on TDAP scales TPS-04, TPS-07, TPS-08 and TPS-09, with equivalents of BS-16 for the Superintendent, BS-13 for the Upper Division Clerks, BS-11 for the Lower Division Clerk and BS-04 for the Staff Car Driver. Because the posts are regular posts on those scales, pay follows the applicable government pay structure for the equivalent grade with the allowances that attach to a post of that grade, but no rupee figure appears in the advertisement and none is quoted here. Any monthly salary number circulating for this round on a job board is an estimate carried over from another organisation or another round, not a fact from this advertisement, and applicants should not plan household budgets around it. The advertisement also prints no application fee, no experience requirement beyond the qualifications in the table, and no email address for the round, and this article states none of those items either. The only money-related condition the advertisement does state is a negative one, and it matters for planning: no travel allowance and no daily allowance is admissible for the interview, so a candidate called to a walk-in interview travels at personal expense. Candidates who need a salary figure before deciding should ask the recruitment office or their District Employment Cell for the current TPS pay position rather than relying on a number invented by a secondary site.

Selection Process

Selection for this round is deliberately simple, and its simplicity is the point: the advertisement states that recruitment runs through a walk-in interview, with no entry test and no written test at any stage. There is therefore no test syllabus to prepare, no test date to wait for, and no written paper standing between the applicant and the interview panel. What the process does have is a shortlisting stage that applicants often underestimate: only shortlisted candidates receive an interview call, so a complete application alone does not guarantee an interview, and the shortlisting will turn on the printed lines — domicile, the post's qualification and skill requirements, and the post's age total — applied exactly as written. Candidates who are called must bring their original documents to the interview, because the advertisement makes original documents compulsory at that stage, and a candidate whose originals do not support the form will fail there even after a successful shortlisting. The authority also keeps the rights that federal recruiters routinely reserve: it may increase or decrease the number of posts, modify the process, or cancel the round at any stage, and no applicant should treat the five advertised seats as fixed until appointments are made. No travel or daily allowance is paid for the interview, so attendance is at the candidate's own cost. Because there is no written test, preparation should concentrate on the interview itself: a clear account of the qualification and skill claimed, the domicile certificate and original documents in order, and a realistic understanding of the post's work, whether that is section administration for the Superintendent, clerical and record work for the UDC and LDC seats, or safe driving and vehicle care for the driver seat.

Documents Required

• Valid Balochistan local or domicile certificate, which is mandatory for every post in this round.
• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) copy.
• Educational degrees and certificates supporting the qualification claimed for the post, including the fourteen-year degree for Superintendent and UDC, Intermediate certificate for LDC, and Matriculation certificate for Staff Car Driver.
• Academic transcripts or detailed marks certificates for the qualifications claimed.
• HEC recognition evidence for the institution, where the post requires education from an HEC-recognised institution.
• MS Office proficiency evidence or certificates, where claimed for the Superintendent, UDC or LDC posts.
• Typing speed evidence, where claimed for the LDC post at 30 words per minute.
• Valid driving licence, for the Staff Car Driver post, with the licence category covering the vehicles the post requires.
• Two recent passport-size photographs.
• Original documents for presentation at the interview, as the advertisement requires originals at that stage.
• Experience certificates, if any experience is claimed in support of the application.
• The completed application submitted through the National Job Portal dedicated link, or the application form required by the respective District Employment Cell, as per the route chosen.

Terms & Conditions

The advertisement's terms are short, and three of them decide candidacies. First, Balochistan domicile is a condition, not a preference: only holders of a Balochistan local or domicile certificate may apply, and recruitment is arranged at district level with support from the District Employment Cells. Second, the process is a walk-in interview with no entry or written test, only shortlisted candidates are called, original documents are compulsory at the interview, and no travel or daily allowance is admissible. Third, TDAP keeps the right to increase or decrease the number of posts, to modify the process, or to cancel the recruitment at any stage, so the five advertised seats are not a guarantee until appointments are made. Two honesty notes belong here. The closing date is a counted date, not a printed one: the advertisement allows fifteen days from publication on 29 October 2026, which gives Friday 13 November 2026, and applicants must verify it against the portal listing or their District Employment Cell, because a different counting method would shift it. The contact number also differs between the two detailed secondary reports of the advertisement, one giving 021-9922587 and the other 021-99225877, so applicants should confirm the number from the original advertisement rather than relying on either summary. Late applications will not be considered, and an application that reaches neither the portal link nor the District Employment Cell inside the window is not an application at all.

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