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Selling "foreign-quota" medical seats in the regulator's own name: the PMDC admissions scam Pakistan's FIA is prosecuting
When the fraud is run in the name of the regulator itself, the usual advice — "check with the authority" — stops working. That is what makes the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council case reported by The Express Tribune unusual and worth knowing about.
According to the report, the Federal Investigation Agency's Anti-Corruption Circle in Islamabad arrested the prime suspect in a scheme that promised students admission to medical colleges under the foreign quota — the seats reserved for overseas Pakistanis and foreign nationals — in exchange for large payments. The suspects named in the report were a PMDC employee, his brother and two associates; they were accused of abusing official positions and using the names of senior PMDC officials to make the scheme look legitimate, and of collecting more than Rs 40 million in cash and bank transfers. They face charges under sections 109, 409, 420 and 161 of the Pakistan Penal Code (abetment, criminal breach of trust, cheating and corruption). All are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The reporting links the case to a broader controversy: 15 colleges that the defunct Pakistan Medical Commission recognised in 2020 "without inspection", against which the FIA later acted. In a separate case reported by ProPakistani in November 2025, a man was arrested over a scheme said to be worth around Rs 4 crore that targeted foreign medical and dental graduates — the people returning home with a degree from abroad and needing PMDC registration, who are as exposed to "we can arrange it" offers as applicants going out.
The lesson travels across borders. Regulators everywhere — PMDC, India's NMC, Bangladesh's BMDC, Nigeria's MDCN — publish their processes, and none of those processes runs through an employee's personal phone or a "contact" who can "arrange" a quota seat or a registration. If someone claims a back door into the regulator, the claim is the fraud, whether or not the person actually works there. Report it to the agency the regulator itself names for complaints (in Pakistan, the FIA), and verify any admission through the official merit lists and the college's own admissions office.
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