Rawalpindi: In the second incident of this type reported within a week, the police arrested a member of an alleged organ trafficking ring that operates from a private home in a housing society in Rawalpindi.
According to the police, six other suspects, including a surgeon, managed to escape during a raid prior to dawn.
Earlier this month, the airport police had also unearthed a similar illegal operation in which a man undergoing a kidney elimination procedure was found.
Police said Thursday that the sub-inspector Wasim Sarwar registered a FIR with the Rawat police, stating that he and his subordinates heard shouts of an individual from inside a house during an anti-deminal patrol at 12 o’clock at midnight in the Rafi block, phase VIII of the city of Bahria.
He said that an ambulance and other suspicious vehicles were also seen moving out of the house. “When the police arrived at the house located on the main road at 12:10 am, they heard shouts from the inside,” said the Si.
He said in the FIR that the police knocked on the door and called the bell, but nobody responded from the inside. Taking into account that human lives were at stake, they entered the house along with an agent lady and listened to noises from one of the rooms.
When the police entered the room, they found a man subject to a stretcher with pieces of rope. I was in a drip and shouted out loud: “Save me, save me.” Another person standing in the room tried to escape.
The SI Seeing the police, six people inside the house jumped on the walls and escaped.
According to the arrested suspect, the names of those who escaped were Imran, resident of Dhamial, Rawalpindi; Dr. Manzoor (surgeon), resident of Hazro, Attock; Dr. Aamir, from Mansehra; Gul Nawaz (assistant), Attock; ZEB (assistant), Atock and Rafiq aka Fika.
He later posted that the person on the stretcher was Hanan Zaid, resident of sector I, phase VIII, Bahria Town.
He informed the police that the suspects had called him for a job at home. When he arrived, they gave him a glass of juice. After drinking the juice, he began to feel bad and became semi conscious. He said the suspects took him to a hospital in the PWD area and performed medical tests about him before losing knowledge.
When he regained consciousness, he found himself tied to a stretcher in the same house and said he was experiencing seizures.
When he asked him why he had been tied, they said: “You have done your doctor and you have a damaged kidney that needs an operation. After that, you will get a job.”
He added that the suspects had kidnapped by force and arrested him and intended to remove his kidney to sell it.
Zafarullah Chema, now in police custody, told investigators that several people had been taken to the house, where their kidneys were removed and sold for transplants to national and foreign clients.
When looking in the rooms inside the house, the police seized medical equipment and medicines used in the Operation Theater. A case has been registered in the relevant sections of the law, and an investigation is being carried out.
Posted in Dawn, August 8, 2025
