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"Pakistan's victims of the 'kidney bazaar'"
The Scotsman ^ | November 13, 2006 | SADAQAT JAN
Posted on 11/12/2006 11:31:41 PM PST by MadIvan
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NASSEM Kausar has done it. So, she says, have her sister, six brothers, five sisters-in-law and two nephews.
Each has sold a kidney to a trade that has led some Pakistanis to dub the country a "kidney bazaar". It even undercuts the Chinese organ business.
"We do this because of our poverty," said Ms Kausar, who is in her 30s and lives with her family in Sultanpur Mor, a village in eastern Pakistan.
A kidney nets the donor £1,300, sometimes less than half that amount, while recipients - about 2,000 a year - pay £3,100 to £6,300, compared with £36,700 in China.
Critics blame an economic system that traps farmers in chronic debt, forcing them to sell their kidneys, and say the trade should be banned. The government says it is taking action.
But now the Belgium-based International Society of Nephrology has suggested expanding the pool of kidney donors by legalising payment of about £20,900 to donors.
At least 20 transplant clinics exist in Pakistan, and 10 per cent of the patients are foreigners, many from the Middle East and "one or two" from Europe, said Bakhsh Ali, a senior official at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation."
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TERRORISM: 5 YEARS AFTER 9/11, JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH STILL A SERIOUS THREAT
Fsc/Aki ^ | Sep-08-06 | Fsc/Aki
Posted on 09/10/2006 2:04:04 PM PDT by Westlander
Five years after the 9/11 attacks in the US and the start of the global war on terror, the Southeast Asian terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which aims to create an Islamic caliphate in the region, has been weakened but remains a serious threat. "The group is much more fragmented," Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia director for the International Crisis Group told Adnkronos International (AKI). "But it is important to remember that part of JI is still intact and it is trying to regroup," said Jones. "The group is very adaptable and it still is a very serious threat," she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at adnki.com ...