Last month, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates showed the mirror to Pakistan’s medical community by sacking hundreds of Pakistani doctors, who had secured jobs since 2016 because of their Master of Surgery (MS) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degrees. Pakistani doctors working in clinics, i.e. patient care, are excellent, but not most of those who are working in clinical research; the latter have brought ignominy for Pakistan. Recently, Saudi Arabia has heavily invested in conducting clinical research, especially that related to the cause of a disease and application of drugs in patients. Responsively, some medical universities in Pakistan have developed certain MS and MD programmes to get the skilled force consumed in the Gulf countries, but the strategy seems to have backfired. Pakistan is facing the allegation that its postgraduate medical degrees are short of structured training programmes. Four main reasons contribute to this problem. First, it is some professors who violate research rules with impunity, and the same malpractice is trickled down to student researchers. For instance, a former vice chancellor of a medical university functional in the government sector in Lahore, after assuming the position, circulated his curriculum vitae claiming that he had one hundred and twenty research articles published in the field of reproductive endocrinology and high altitude physiology during his research experience spanning thirty-five years. If words in one research article are counted as at least two thousand, the total words published were about 2,40,000 (two hundred and forty thousand). With such a considerable number of words, a whole book in medical research could be published. Similarly, with such an extended research experience, there could be patent rights against his name. Unfortunately, neither was there anything scientific in his credit portal nor was he a contributor to any standard book on the subject. Second, most medical researchers are not careful about the validity of research. They overlook the fact that the steps taken to conduct research are more important than the conclusion drawn. A common reason to drawing a conclusion not flowing from the research conducted is that some researchers in Pakistan steal the objectives and the conclusion of research conducted in some other part of the world, and replicates the same in Pakistan’s context to claim a scientific credit. For instance, in 1991,P Laurberg et al published the result of their study conducted at Aalborg Regional Hospital in Denmark on the high incidence of multi-nodular toxic goiter in the elderly population in a low iodine intake area in East-Jutland Denmark. In 2013, a team of researchers from some government sector based medical universities in Rawalpindi, replicated the same study in elderly population of the northern region of Pakistan, and without following the requisite research steps drew the same conclusion. Steps were not followed because before even conducting the research, the team of researchers knew of the conclusion it would be reaching. Most medical researchers are incautious of the significance of the reliability of research. Any research the results of which are not replicable is unreliable research Similarly, in 2005,at the Osaka University in Japan,A. Fukukara et al conducted a study on human beings to examine the effect of a secreted proten (Visfatin) on testosterone levels in insulin resistant diabetic males. Interestingly, in 2013, a team of Pakistani clinical researchers based in Rawalpindi reinforced the same findings by conducting a study on male rats. In most parts of the world, experiments are conducted first on animals and then, seeing the success of the experiments, human beings are engaged in clinical trials. In Pakistan, ironically, the reverse is the situation that makes mockery of a research. In fact, Fukukara et al did not need any reinforcement, but researchers in Pakistan were in need of earning a scientific credit. News of such chicanery has reached foreign countries that distrust the achievement of Pakistani researchers. Third, most medical researchers are incautious of the significance of the reliability of research. Any research the results of which are not replicable is unreliable research. Dubious data is produced to serve only the purpose of the researcher. For instance, the head of department in a government-sector medical university in Lahore declared a couple of years ago that he had discovered a Pakistani type II diabetes. The professor published four research articles (in 2013, 2014 March, 2014 September, and 2015) in four different research journals of Pakistan, and each time he got the approval of the ethical committee of the university concerned. Interestingly, the blood samples of 212 patients he used were the samples he reportedly collected from November 2009 to January 2012 during his PhD studies. It is still not known how he cryo preserved the samples to keep on using them for more than three years after the date of sample collection. It is also not known why the ethical committee of the university permitted him to declare in each research article that the cohort of patients was fresh each time. Neither any independent nor a third party researcher has been successful in repeating the experiments to confirm the authenticity of the findings. Fourth, most medical researchers practise a culture of condoning. They do not challenge each other because they mutually conduct research malpractices. Silent collaborators are also around. Media managers in each medical university secure hefty salaries and penetrate the media to forestall the publication of any news prejudiced to the interests of the university. Media managers also offer reporters covering the health beat a direct access to medical facilities of attached hospitals as a sop to stay tightlipped. Similarly, the Chancellor/Governor of the province supervises medical universities, especially those in the government sector, and he overlooks such research quackery. There are several complaints against research malpractices lying pending with the office of Governor of Punjab Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar. Registrars of medical universities propitiate the governors with certain favours and keep the issues suppressed. Consequently, the complaints remain unanswered and unaddressed. An inquiry into the matter is required to eradicate the malpractices of research quackery rampant in Pakistan’s medical universities, bringing disgrace upon Pakistan. The writer is a PhD from King’s College, London, in the field of Clinical Pathology. He can be reached at amjadmehmood_dr@yahoo.com