A scheme to leak Central Superior Service (CSS) exam papers in exchange for money was foiled by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Sunday. Three people including two government officers have been arrested already while raids are being conducted to arrest others involved. The CSS exams are held in 19 major cities across the country, including Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar. According to information available, a group of people would take hundreds of thousands of rupees in exchange for leaked paper merely hours before the examinations. The FIA has revealed that they conducted a raid in Lahore’s Kacha Lines Road, on the basis of information received about the CSS paper being leaked and sold, and arrested an excise and taxation officer, Syed Tajjamul Hussain Naqvi. Information from his mobile phone led the team to another suspect, Engineer Shehzad Sial. Both suspects have indicated the involvement of Federal Public Service Commission Balochistan Assistant Director, Khalid Hussain Mugheri; Punjab jail department assistant superintendent, Owais Sharif, and Multan regional tax office inspector, Sajjad, during the investigation. A case has been lodged against the suspects and unidentified students by the Anti-Crime Circle police station in Lahore. The FIA team has further found an alleged trail of papers between Mugheri, Sial and Naqvi through WhatsApp, where the latter two would leak the exam questions to students. Recently, Rs 980,000 was also sent to Mugheri’s bank account in Multan through Sajjad. In light of the evidence uncovered by the FIA’s Lahore team, the FIA Quetta team arrested Mugheri. Raids are being conducted to arrest the others involved in this case. Published in Daily Times, February 18th 2019.