Pakistani police say they have arrested nine people for abducting people, drugging them and stealing their kidneys for transplant operations. Selling kidneys from living donors is not illegal in Pakistan, which medical experts say has a reputation as the world’s kidney bazaar. But police say those arrested in the eastern city of Lahore tricked people then drugged them with tranquillisers before removing their kidneys. Hundreds of rich foreigners come to Pakistan every year and buy kidneys from live, impoverished donors, in a business thought to be worth millions of dollars
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