The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched a formal inquiry into the promotion of Professor Rana Imran Sikandar as Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). Investigators are scrutinizing working papers submitted to the Central Selection Board (CSB) in March 2025 amid allegations that service rules were bypassed to secure the top appointment.

Official sources told Public Purviewthat the CSB considered Professor Sikandar’s promotion based on documentation claiming he met the specific service rules for clinicians. Under these regulations, a candidate must hold a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree and complete two years of post-qualification hospital administration experience.

However, sources claim that clinical officers at the hospital, including Professor Sikandar, had their head-of-department roles equated to hospital management duties to satisfy experience requirements. Records indicate that Professor Sikandar obtained his MPH on June 16, 2023. According to the rules, his mandatory two-year experience would not have been completed until mid-2025.

Since the CSB meeting took place in March 2025, the Professor was allegedly three months short of the required eligibility period.
Acting on a formal complaint filed by 24 PIMS doctors, the FIA is now reviewing eligibility records, working papers, and approval documents to determine how these qualifications were presented to the board.