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An MBBS from Pakistan cannot get an Indian doctor a licence: the 2022 notice Indian families searching for Al-Nafees Medical College need to read first
Al-Nafees Medical College in Islamabad is a private college affiliated to Isra University, listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools and teaching MBBS since 2012. Its page on this site is one of the most searched in the directory, and a large share of those searches come from India. This case is for those readers.
According to Medical Dialogues, India's National Medical Commission and the University Grants Commission issued a public notice in April 2022 stating that any Indian national or Overseas Citizen of India who takes admission to MBBS or BDS in any medical college in Pakistan will not be eligible to appear in the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination or to seek employment in India on the strength of that qualification. The only exceptions, the notice said, are people who obtained their Pakistani degree before December 2018, and migrants who have received security clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs. Careers360 reported in 2025 that, asked in Parliament whether the position would be reconsidered, the government said it had no plans to do so, and the Minister of State for Health repeated that graduates of Pakistani colleges are not allowed to practise in India.
This is not a comment on the college. Al-Nafees admits Pakistani and overseas students under the rules of Pakistan's regulator, and nothing here suggests otherwise. It is a comment on what a degree from it is worth to a specific group of buyers: for an Indian student, an MBBS from any college in Pakistan is a degree that cannot be registered at home, whatever an agent says about "WHO listing" or "recognised worldwide".
The scam pattern to watch for is the one this rule creates. Because the degree is real and the college is real, an agent can show a genuine admission letter, a genuine campus and a genuine World Directory entry, and still be selling something useless to the family in front of him. Recognition is not a property of the college; it is a relationship between the college and your home regulator. Before paying anyone for a seat anywhere, ask your own regulator, in writing, whether the degree will be accepted, and keep the answer.
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