The FIA's recent crackdown on an illegal transplant network in Islamabad is commendable. Five arrests, the seizure of vehicles and the freezing of properties worth Rs87.5 million suggest that the trade is not merely sustained by desperate patients and impoverished donors. It is a lucrative criminal enterprise that relies on intermediaries and medical expertise with access to healthcare facilities.

Of particular concern is the ease with which the suspects circumvented established medical procedures.........

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