Special Report by Shoaib Habib Memon: Pakistan has a growing pharmaceutical industry. As of 2012, the total export value of Pakistani-manufactured medicines around the world stood at $400 million.

Many different companies sell a diverse range of drugs and pharmaceutical products, the biggest household names of which include Ferozsons Laboratories, Getz Pharma, Herbion, Remington Pharmaceuticals, Barrett Hodgson Pakistan, Zahoor Pharmaceutical Industry PVT LTD, Bosch Pharmaceuticals, Nucleus Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Limited, Shaf Pharma and Macter International Limited.

Today, the pharmaceutical sector is one of the most developed hi-tech sectors within the country's economy. New pharmacy schools have been set up nationwide in the past few years which provide and cater to quality pharmacy education to students of pharmacy.

Within the province of Punjab, the Punjab Pharmacy Council (based in Lahore) is a government department responsible for conducting examination and tests.

The Pakistan Pharmacists Society is the national professional organisation of pharmacists country-wide and also acts as a regulatory authority controlling pharmacy practice in Pakistan. Pharmaceutical authorities in Pakistan are part of the International Pharmaceutical Federation.

The Pakistan Pharmacists Society (PPS) is the national organization of pharmacists and student pharmacists, committed to providing leadership for the pharmacists. PPS has a mission to promote and expand the profession of pharmacy and the role of pharmacists in Pakistan. PPS is dedicated to improve public health and patient care by enhancing professional development of the pharmacists and the pakistan pharmacy council.

PPS Objectives are,To promote pharmacy as an essential component of the healthcare team and to serve as primary catalyst for this change.

To contribute to continuing education programmes for pharmacists already engaged in practice to improve the medication use and health outcomes of patients.

To promote high standards of professional conduct amongst pharmacists in order to improve medication use.

To provide leadership in the identification, development and implementation of health policies of concern to pharmacy.

To hold seminars, symposia, exhibitions and conferences in order to foster national and international collaborations.

To liaise with health professional organizations and others in order to achieve aforementioned objectives.

In most jurisdictions (such as the United States), pharmacists are regulated separately from physicians. These jurisdictions also usually specify that only pharmacists may supply scheduled pharmaceuticals to the public, and that pharmacists cannot form business partnerships with physicians or give them "kickback" payments. However, the American Medical Association (AMA) Code of Ethics provides that physicians may dispense drugs within their office practices as long as there is no patient exploitation and patients have the right to a written prescription that can be filled elsewhere. 7 to 10 percent of American physicians practices reportedly dispense drugs on their own.

In some rural areas in the United Kingdom, there are dispensing doctors  who are allowed to both prescribe and dispense prescription-only medicines to their patients from within their practices. The law requires that the GP practice be located in a designated rural area and that there is also a specified, minimum distance (currently 1.6 kilometres) between a patient's home and the nearest retail pharmacy.

In other jurisdictions (particularly in Asian countries such as China, Malaysia, and Singapore), doctors are allowed to dispense drugs themselves and the practice of pharmacy is sometimes integrated with that of the physician, particularly in traditional Chinese medicine.

In Canada it is common for a medical clinic and a pharmacy to be located together and for the ownership in both enterprises to be common, but licensed separately.

The reason for the majority rule is the high risk of a conflict of interest and/or the avoidance of absolute powers. Otherwise, the physician has a financial self-interest in "diagnosing" as many conditions as possible, and in exaggerating their seriousness, because he or she can then sell more medications to the patient. Such self-interest directly conflicts with the patient's interest in obtaining cost-effective medication and avoiding the unnecessary use of medication that may have side-effects. This system reflects much similarity to the checks and balances system of the U.S. and many other governments.

A campaign for separation has begun in many countries and has already been successful (like in Korea). As many of the remaining nations move towards separation, resistance and lobbying from dispensing doctors who have pecuniary interests may prove a major stumbling block (e.g. in Malaysia).But Still Pakistan pharmaceutical Companies not persuing the rules. Several Patients are expired during the Usage of Fasle Drugs.