Pakistan — an ‘organ trading hotspot’

[Salahuddin]

Pakistan — an ‘organ trading hotspot’



By Rauf Klasra

LONDON: The poverty-stricken Pakistanis working at hotels and restaurants in the UK, are now advertising on the Internet sale of their kidneys, liver section, and eye corneas to the rich but ailing Britons at throwaway prices with the offer to facilitate these operations in Rawalpindi.

The Britons are being offered to visit Pakistan for these operations, as trade in human organs is illegal in the United Kingdom.

It has also been reported here that apart from sale of these organs in the UK through the Internet, this facility is available in Pakistan for the rich around the world, particularly the Arabs and the Indians.

Now British nationals are being encouraged to purchase kidneys from the Pakistanis available at very low rates, and for this purpose the Internet is being used to attract potential buyers from the UK market.

Around 5,000 ailing Britons might become potential clients of these poor Pakistanis selling their kidneys through the Internet or brokers, as every year, about 8,000 British nationals need kidney transplants but only 3,000 succeed.

Pakistani doctors in Rawalpindi are part of this illegal trade, as the Britons are being told through websites that in case of a deal, they would be required to visit Pakistan for transplant of these organs.

A British newspaper has traced these Pakistanis willing to sell their organs through Internet advertisements and one of its reporter even struck a deal to buy the organs. He recorded the whole deal with a Pakistani waiter through video camera and posted it on the website of the newspaper that shook the whole of Britain and sent a shocking reminder to the Pakistani community about the worsening socio-economic condition back home.

After these advertisements by some Pakistani waiters, Pakistan has now been termed an "organs trading hotspot".

The Pakistani, willing to sell his organ told the reporter of the British newspaper that he was willing to sell his kidney, liver, etc. Consequently, the reporter disguising as a potential client struck a deal with the advertiser who offered his kidney but with the condition that the operation would take place in Pakistan where he was in contact with some doctors who conduct such operations.

The Sun has splashed on a macabre story about the growing trade in human body parts with an investigation into a website where people from around the world offer their organs for sale. The story was also carried by other major newspapers, like The Guardian and Times, as it was something new for them that now the Pakistanis are also offering their kidneys on the Internet.

The story focuses on a Pakistani waiter from Manchester who signed a contract to sell one of the paper's reporters his kidney, a part of his liver and one of his corneas and said he knew a doctor in Pakistan willing to perform the surgery.

The sale and purchase of live human tissue is illegal in the UK and the US. But the campaign group Organs Watch has identified many countries where the trade flourishes. Every year patients from the rich nations -- including the US and Japan -- buy thousands of organs taken from live donors in the developing countries, such as Mexico and Pakistan.

The Guardian, while commenting on this shocking story, reads: "just days ago, the leader of a political party in Pakistan -- an organs trading hotspot -- called on the country’s president to outlaw the practice.”

The report has also quoted one Indian newspaper's reports that the village of Yazman, Bahawalpur district, is infamous for kidney sale, with none of its young men believed to have two kidneys. Also this month, Indian police, investigating into a children serial killing, warned that the killing could be linked to the trade which has been outlawed in the country.

The Guardian newspaper reads: “With no end in sight to the illegal trade and authorities worldwide seemingly unable to prevent its growth, is it time to consider setting up a legal market in human body parts? … Last year, two US doctors suggested this was both the solution to the shortage of organ donors in the West and the best means of protecting the poor and desperate in developing countries from being mutilated or killed by back-street operations.”



Citizens have to sell there organs inorder to survive, while there leaders live luxurious lives...

 

[Adux]

that is quite sad

 

[Bull]

It happens in all developing countries.
The case of 17 odd children killed in newdelhi was initially linked to organ racket..now they say they were cannibals.

 

[Awesome]

Sal, please don't start topics with misleading thread titles.

 

[Cheetah786]

Salahuddin

JUST A SIMPLE QUESTION IF CONDITIONS WERE BACK BACK HOME AS U BEING (anti pakistan unless its returned to MULLAHS)WHAY would these so called pakistanies would travel to england and then offer to sell there kidneys.

or what you are trying to say is englands economy(i doubt that)sucks and people have no choice but to sell there organs to make a living.as people living in england and working in england cannot be affected with economy back home.i been to pakistan so many times in last 5 years every time i go something is happening and progress is visible.

It has also been reported here that apart from sale of these organs in the UK through the Internet, this facility is available in Pakistan for the rich around the world, particularly the Arabs and the Indians

indians is the icing on the cake.

did the so called repoter Actually seen this gentlemans pakistani passport or was it an indian who for the fun of it said he is pakistani and lots of indians are going to pakistan to buy organs to defame pakistan.did u see the proof or in order to say bad about pervaz musharaf u would accept any thing that looks good for you.iam willing to bet you are a run away after NAWAZ TIMES and want the glory days back eh.
from what i read and sounds like a con artist at work here as this bogus investigation have absolutly no proof what so ever (some doctor in pakistan really who oh he is in Rawalpindi yeah thats proof enough for me to belive it)

Salahuddin

if u belive what you posted do i have a deal for brooklyn bridge for sale.



For many years now, certain parts of the world - such as Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam - have had an unsavoury connection with sex tourism: foreigners arriving to sexually abuse children. Now, a BBC investigation finds that the Indian state of Goa may be added to that list.

Child sex tourism is threatening to become the darker side of life in Goa's tropical paradise - and there is evidence that the Indian authorities are turning their back on the problem.

Nishta Desai, a consultant to the organisation Children's Rights In Goa, estimates that there are "hundreds" of children being abused by foreign paedophiles.

"It is not getting the attention it requires," she says.

"We believe it is organised, and already fairly institutionalised.

"It is something that really requires a lot of will to unearth the way it is organised."

Trafficking network

There are various ways that the sex offenders get access. Some approach the children directly on the beach, and offer them a drink or a meal before taking them back their hotel rooms.

Others are approached by intermediaries, such as shack owners and motorcycle taxi drivers.

Within half an hour of my being on the beach in north Goa, a young man who called himself Romeo approaches and tells me he knows friends at the nearby town of Mapusa who can help me have fun with girls.

I ask if there are 13-year-old girls, and he replies that "it's no problem," even though the age of consent in Goa is 18.

Non-governmental organisations say that there is such demand in Goa for child sex workers that they are now being trafficked into the state on demand by criminal gangs operating from India.

"Traffickers in Bombay contact the local traffickers and ask them how many girls they want, and then they traffic the girls by buses," explains Arun Pandey, director of charity ARZ, set up to try and rescue children from the sex trade.

"The local traffickers receive these girls from the bus stop and then they supply them to the hotels and lodges... it's a very organised network."

'Hyped' issue

Concern over the problem is shared by the UN office on drugs and crime, which last year began a project to strengthen law enforcement on the issue. It believes as many as three or four million women and children are being trafficked around India.

In a report, the UN agency said Goa is a "major destination" for children trafficked for paedophiles, and that sex tourism in the state is "significant."

But this is denied by the state's government minister for social welfare, Subhash Shirodkar, who categorically states that "neither Goans nor non-Goans are abused."

"The issue is a little hyped," he adds.

"There may be one or two instances over the last five to 10 years - maybe."

And he also states that he does not think child trafficking is a problem in the state at all.

"I totally disagree with this," he says.

"NGOs are not complaining to me. What prevents them, when every week and every month, they meet with me?"

However, Ms Desai of Children's Rights In Goa says she is not surprised by the minister's denial, saying there is no political will to deal with child prostitution.

"There is a sense of fear that if they take up the problem in a forthright manner, we could lose tourist revenue and give Goa a bad name," she says.

"What we would like to say is that it will not do this - if any country takes on child sexual abuse, it should in fact give that country a good name."

'Bribes'

Perhaps lending credence to this theory is that a report commissioned by the Goan government which estimates at least 100 paedophiles are active there during the tourist season - and speaks of an increasing threat and the need for the government to take firm action - has never been published.

And on the rare occasions alleged sex tourists have been put before the courts, they have been acquitted; there has been no successful conviction apart from a paedophile ring that was broken up by a national police squad brought in from Delhi.

And NGOs also complain that local police take bribes and keep the problem hushed up.

One senior worker for a charity organisation, who did not wish to be named, said that he actually caught one man with a boy in a hotel bedroom, but that when he reported the case to the police, they dropped it immediately - despite a signed confession from the child who had been abused.

Certainly, the superintendent of Goa's crime division, Vishram Borkar, says that no cases of paedophiles have been investigated in 2006.

"I think we're doing a good job.

 

[Adux]

Where did India come up over here,

Developed Countries have thier share of poor. In UK pakistani's and Bangladeshi constitute a significant amount of the poor. India is country which is poor though developing at a phenomenal pace, Organ selling, Child prostiution and lots of other social evils do prevail in several parts of india.
Since we have INDIA already accepting their faults..can we please get back to topic

 

[vnomad]

There isn't anything to discuss Adu bhai. It happens. Its regrettable. We can appeal to all forum members not to buy kidneys in the black market, but that's about it.

 

[Spring Onion]

Sal, please don't start topics with misleading thread titles.

Asim afterall ur 'son' has returnd from umara