Ayesha Noor
On the night of October 14 and 15, 2026, the FIA and HOTA raided a private house in PWD Society, Islamabad. They found that a kidney transplant had just been done there. The donor and the patient were still inside the house. Both were taken to PIMS Hospital. The police registered a case as FIR No. 60/2026 on October 15 under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act 2010 and Pakistan Penal Code.
According to the FIA press release, the patient Mohammad Qasim paid 3 million rupees for the kidney. The donor Ramzan Arshad, a brick kiln worker, was promised 400,000 rupees. Out of this, 340,000 was for him and 60,000 was commission for three agents.
The police recovered 1 million rupees cash from one accused named Zafarullah Khan. He told the investigators that he had already given 2 million to Dr. Manzoor Hussain, who is named in the FIR as head of the team and is currently absconding. The FIA has frozen two houses worth 87.5 million rupees, one in Media Town worth 62.5 million and one in Jinnah Garden Phase I worth 25 million. Three vehicles were also seized, including one Changan Oshan X7 and two Honda Civics. The FIA has written to banks to get the bank account details of the accused and is considering money laundering proceedings.
According to the investigation, the method used was that tissue typing, cross-match, PRA and HLA tests, which are normally done only for HOTA-approved close relatives, were done through a hospital by submitting donor samples under the names of the recipient’s relatives with fake referral letters. Dialysis of recipients was arranged through a technician of a hospital in Islamabad, and if the patient’s condition became unstable after transplant, the patient was shifted to another hospital.
The FIA has said that the network included agents, a doctor, a nurse, an anaesthesia provider, medicine suppliers and lab facilitators, and it operated from private premises in PWD Society, Bahria Phase IV and Peshawar. Three accused, Zafarullah Khan, Shakeel Jamil and Najid were arrested from the spot, Usama Riaz was arrested the next day, and nurse Qurratulain Mahfooz Sadoozai is in jail. On October 20, the court declined FIA’s request for her physical remand and sent her to judicial lockup to be produced on November 3. Other nominated accused including Qasim, Shahid, Liaqat, Saleem Khan and Babar are still to be arrested and raids are continuing.
Teams from HOTA, the Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority and the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan inspected the facility and will submit separate reports. The case is being heard before Judicial Magistrate Shaista Khan Kundi, who granted four days physical remand of the four accused and fixed the next hearing on October 27.
Under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act 2010, removal of human organ without authority can be punished with imprisonment up to ten years and fine up to one million rupees. If a registered medical practitioner is convicted, his name is reported to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council for action including removal of his name from the register for three years for first offence and permanently for subsequent offence.
This case is similar to another case at Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital where the Supreme Court granted bail to two doctors accused in an illegal kidney transplant case. According to that case record, the raid was conducted on May 19, 2026, and Rs 1.294 million cash was recovered. Most donors in that case were also reported to be kiln workers.
May Allah grant hidayat to these people who earn haram money from bad work.
The government should give strict punishment to such people so that this illegal work does not happen again. Because of such cases, children also get kidnapped and their kidneys and other organs are removed and sold illegally for money. The purpose of discussing this story is that many such stories are happening around us, so we should be aware of this kind of fraud to keep ourselves and our children safe.
