Only 3 Out of 1,024 Candidates Pass KP Civil Judge Exam

Only three candidates out of 1,024 have passed the recent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission (KPPSC) examination for the vacant positions of Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate and Alaqa Qazi, according to the results announced by the commission. Despite a substantial number of applications, the overall success rate remained exceptionally low.

The commission had received 3,097 applications for the 105 available BPS-18 positions, which were advertised by the Peshawar High Court in April 2026. All applicants were provisionally admitted to the syllabus-based written examination, with 1,024 candidates eventually participating. Only Saba Rasool from South Waziristan, Abdullah Noor from Bajaur, and Sayed Zahid Hussain from Mardan successfully qualified for the test.

The subject-wise results indicated that English General and English Essay posed significant challenges for candidates, with a pass rate of around 57 percent in Urdu General and Urdu Essay. However, candidates performed considerably better in Pashto General and Pashto Essay, achieving a 96 percent success rate. General Knowledge also had a high failure rate, with only 68 percent of candidates passing.

In Civil Law-I, 59 percent of the candidates passed, while Civil Law-II had a success rate of 51 percent. The Criminal Law paper recorded a higher success rate at around 81 percent. Islamic Jurisprudence and Qanun-e-Shahadat 1984 and Pleadings papers also had notable success rates of 77 percent and 78 percent, respectively. The KPPSC has directed the three successful candidates to submit the required documents within 15 days and allowed candidates to apply for the re-totaling of their marks.