Govt approves ‘extraordinary security allowance’ for police, civil service officers in 26 KP districts

PESHAWAR: The federal government has designated 26 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as “terror-affected”, declaring that all Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) and Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) officers posted therein are eligible for an ‘extraordinary law and order and security risk allowance’, effective from July 1 this year, it emerged on Saturday. According to a notification issued by the Establishment Division to the KP chief secretary and seen by Dawn , the allowance for 26 of the 35 districts will be 250 per cent of the running basic pay and paid retroactively.

It read that the ‘KP Extraordinary Law, Order and Security Risk Allowance’ would be admissible to PAS and PSP officers posted in Peshawar, Khyber, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mohmand, Kohat, Hangu, Karak, Kurram, Orakzai, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, North Waziristan, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Upper and Lower South Waziristan, Swat, Buner, Shangla, Bajaur, Upper and Lower Dir, besides Upper and Lower Chitral. Citing an August 18 letter from the Establishment Division to the KP chief secretary, the notification stated that Swabi and the entirety of Hazara Division, comprising Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Battagram, Torghar, Kolai-Palas and the Upper and Lower Kohistan districts, were “excluded for the purpose of admissibility of subject allowance”. The federal government requested the KP government to proceed with payment of the allowance with effect from July 1, 2026. In the August letter seen by Dawn , the Establishment Division said the government approved the grant for PAS and PSP officers serving in the “seriously disturbed KP districts”, due to the law and order situation and the danger to officers and personnel. It added that the allowance would be admissible only to PAS and PSP officers in…