Doctors, agents identified in organ trade racket

Interior minister informed authority arrests various elements involved in heinous act

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), on the directive of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, has been working ‘proactively’ to identify and apprehend various elements involved in illegal activity of human organs transplantation.

According to the Ministry of Interior’s press release issued on Wednesday, three doctors, four paramedics, two agents, two heads of the heinous racket, one facilitator, two donors and two foreign recipients had been identified so far after the Human Organ Transplant Act was placed on the FIA’s schedule.

This was revealed during a high-level meeting held at the interior ministry with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar in the chair.



On the arrests of proclaimed offenders (POs), the meeting was informed that since the campaign against POs was launched, 358 POs were arrested in Punjab, 17 in Sindh, 56 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 12 in Balochistan and 119 in Islamabad.

The minister directed the FIA to gear up efforts towards apprehending proclaimed offenders wanted in various cases.

The minister also directed Nadra and FIA to complete, within a week, digitisation of red-book containing the names of most wanted human traffickers.

Reviewing progress on various new initiatives being undertaken by the FIA, including the inquiry against installation of cellular towers in densely-populated areas and their negative effects on human lives, adulteration campaign against the sale of substandard imported food items, sale of spurious drugs and measures to check currency smuggling, Nisar directed the FIA to put up a comprehensive plan of action for consideration of the cabinet.

FIA officials also briefed the minister about the arrest of three Afghan women from Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) who were trying to proceed to the UK on forged documents with the help of PIA officials.



It was informed that the main character, PIA official Israr Ahmed, was under arrest. Notorious human trafficker Altaf, who was also involved in the incident, had been identified by the FIA and his CNIC has been blocked and passport put in the Passport Control List.

It was informed that efforts were underway to apprehend all those involved in the incident, including the main culprit Altaf. The FIA officials also briefed the minister about the progress made in the Khanani and Kalia case.

It was informed that the data of flight of capital of Rs103 billion had been retrieved from the main server of KKI. In addition, the data of 56,000 transactions of total Rs93 billion had also been retrieved from various storage mediums.

It was informed that so far 1,023 companies involved in sending Rs22.69 billion against 8,103 transactions have been identified.

The FIA officials also briefed the minister about the progress made so far into the match-fixing issue. The meeting was informed that the FIA in its campaign for the recovery of petroleum levy, launched on the directives of the interior minister, had so far recovered Rs2.587 billion and further recoveries are also expected.

The minister expressed satisfaction over the progress made so far into the campaign.