Kyrgyzstan: Our troubled students and government indifference!

The staff of the embassy did not even ask the condition of any student including her. But when she reached Lahore Airport, they were tried to make her realize that everything was done by people involved in the government. I was very scared. I was humanitarianly driven to the airport by my flat owner in his tinted glass car. I did not sleep from May 13 till I reached Pakistan. In Bishkek, the message is being spread by the local people that if you see any black person, shoot him..." When the local protestors arrived outside his flat, the flat owner said that there is no foreigner here. Malki does not live. But in the adjacent flats, the protestors were beating the foreign students as if a film was being shot or a video game was being played, which scared the other students, including him. "The local police did not make any effort to stop the agitators. However, when the situation worsened, the paramilitary force and army started patrolling the city, after which peace was restored wherever the military convoy passed. But after that, local people would gather and start torturing the foreign students...."We were four girls in one room, nine people were locked in one flat for three days. We called the Pakistani embassy several times. But not even a single phone call was answered by them. We had run out of food and drink. Every hour, angry people would knock on the door of their flat in groups, which made them feel that now their The last time has come...."Until our boarding was completed, the people of a family who delivered us the airport were present outside the airport. Everyone has reached Lahore from Bishkek with great difficulty."

These words are not from anyone else but our children who are studying in different medical colleges of Kyrgyzstan, and have reached Pakistan after saving their lives. It seems that our embassies are left only for the protocol and reception of elites, otherwise their work to facilitate Pakistanis is not left at all. Before proceeding further, let us tell about Kyrgyzstan here that this country is a Turkestan state located in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south and the People's Republic of China to the east. Its capital is its largest city, Bishkek. It has an area of about 2 lakh square kilometers and a population of about six lakh, of which the majority (90 percent) are Muslims. In addition to Kyrgyz, Russians, Uzbeks, Uighurs and Zungars also live here in large numbers. had become The Kyrgyz flag symbolizes this unity with forty rays. while the circle in the middle marks the local tent, the center. According to modern history, in 1876, Kyrgyzstan became part of the Russian Empire and in 1936, the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic was formed to become a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. After the democratic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev in Soviet Russia, the pro-independence candidate Askar Akayev was elected president in 1990. On August 31, 1991, Kyrgyzstan declared independence from Moscow and established a democratic government. Kyrgyzstan gained independence as a nation-state in 1991 after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Kyrgyzstan is divided into seven provinces: Batkin, Chui, Jalalabad, Naryn, Osh, Talas and Essyk-Kol, which are called oblasts. On May 13 of this month, videos of violence against foreign students by locals in the city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, were revealed on social media, in which angry people were breaking into the rooms and torturing some people. Apart from other foreigners, 14 Pakistani students were also injured in these attacks. According to reports, the situation worsened after a fight between Kyrgyz and Egyptians, whose anger was directed at students from South Asia.

Well, the question arises as to why a large number of our students, which are said to be 15,000 to 20,000, choose for medical education in Kyrgyzstan or similar countries. It is that they give MBBS degree in very low cost as compared to Europe and America, secondly, the merit of medical colleges here is more than 91%, while in Kyrgyzstan these students get admission in medical even with 60% marks. Third, there are reports that some Pakistanis have opened or invested in medical colleges in Kyrgyzstan. They charge fees in dollars, which means our capitalists have learned how to earn double money by taking money from students here and sending them to other countries.

Although five years ago, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council blacklisted many universities in Kyrgyzstan, after which only 9 medical universities were allowed to issue degrees after negotiations between the state of Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan. While at the same time, it was confirmed in these conditions that if any Pakistani student comes from abroad after studying medicine or dentistry and to practice in the country, he should pass the National Registration Examination (NRE) from PMDC. Under RE) it is mandatory to pass the test and obtain 50% marks in it. Whereas if a Pakistani student studying abroad for any reason has to return to Pakistan and complete the remaining studies in an institution here. To get it for any reason, he must pass the National Eligibility Board exam. If we take a quick look at the history in this regard, a large number of Pakistani students in the 1990s enjoyed the ease and affordability of obtaining visas. Started turning to Kyrgyzstan for education. Before that, even during the Soviet era, Pakistani students got admission there, but after the breakup of the Soviet Union, visas and admissions in the countries of Central Asia became common and cheap. Education in private medical colleges is also so expensive, that a common man cannot even think of studying in them. And then there are problems due to non-construction of new medical colleges.

However, if the population in Pakistan does not increase along with the increase in educational institutions, then this will be the case that Pakistani students will submit fees abroad, and will complete their degree by asking for money from Pakistan for five years. We will send crores of dollars abroad and Pakistan will suffer more losses. And as for the recent violent incidents, this is an internal matter of Kyrgyzstan, but when the riots started again after May 13, 2010, our embassy should have started measures at the same time, but we waited for 4-5 days. If there is a big tragedy, if you do something only after that, I think it will not be more bad faith than that. However, similar incidents happened in 2010, in which a Pakistani student Ali was also killed. And then after the recent events, the way the Pakistani embassy has shown "responsibility", believe me, such a responsibility would have caused outrage among millions of Pakistanis abroad. Who are living abroad because of these embassies. The limit is that so far, among all the students who have returned from Kyrgyzstan, not a single one of them has used a good word for the Pakistani embassy. Rather, wherever such incidents happen around the world, it is possible that Pakistani embassies have been trained in such a way that they can ensure the safety of their citizens. I think they exist only to extract huge sums of money. And as far as the budget of our Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned, if they have to visit a country now, they will arrange for twenty tickets and the settlement of their families abroad. But it is possible to spend this budget on overseas Pakistanis.

However, there is a need to create resources in Pakistan so that children prefer to study in their own country instead of studying abroad. If he wants to go to Kyrgyzstan, China or any other country for the purpose of studying, then the state is obliged to manage it, not to stop it by force. So in such a situation, if the number of medical educational institutions in the country is increased, believe me, our students will not feel deprived, and we will not get stuck in any such issue, and we will not need selfish Pakistani embassies, which are Sensei is making us laugh all over the world today!