Most civil servants posted to such a remote area as Baluchistan, North Western Frontier Province, or the tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghan border would lobby hard for a posting in the bigger cities of Pakistan, but Ahmad stayed on, spending several decades working as an administrator.
Graduating with degrees in social services and law, she headed for Paris and a civil servant post as a works' inspector.
The EU is calling for the liquidation of Greece's defence industry, a further reduction in civil servant posts, and the health of the key privatisation programme.
Civil servant posts and financial incentives have been provided, on top of the regular salary, to offset the opportunity loss of working in remote areas [ 5, 8].
The Mongols, by themselves, were incapable of ruling China, and, though at the lower levels they made use of Chinese civil servants, posts of importance were allotted to foreigners.
The first Minister of Health was dismissed for incompetence, and the most senior civil-servant post in the Ministry--the Permanent Secretary--remained unfilled for many months.
His father, a bricklaying instructor and civil servant, had been posted to the town of Douentza, 800km from Bamako, when the annual fishing festival rolled around.
But they worry about the possibility that financial disclosure statements for hundreds of thousands of career civil servants would be posted on the Web.
Born in Monmouthshire in 1934, the son of a civil servant, his father was posted to London where he attended first grammar school, then St Pauls, before studying law at Oxford.
The civil servant dismissed for posting offensive comments on Wikipedia about the Hillsborough disaster serves as a reminder that social media is now inextricably linked to the workplace – and for many the line between personal and professional no longer exists.
