Student recalls last days in Kyrgyzstan
PESHAWAR: A student returning from volatile Kyrgyzstan said on Tuesday the law of the jungle prevailed in Osh city as mobsters were behaving like monsters.
Asif Sohrab, a student of the Osh Medical University in Kyrgyzstan, was among the 134 Pakistani students who returned home via a C-130 plane from Kyrgyzstan. Moving scenes were witnessed when the student reached his home in the populated Gulberg area in Peshawar Cantonment.
“Life has become almost impossible in Kyrgyzstan. The mobsters are killing each and every one coming in their way,” recalled Asif Sohrab, whose convoy of two buses was brought to the airport in the security of tanks.
Like other students, Asif was all praise for the Pakistani officials in Kyrgyzstan as well as Foreign Ministry and media for providing immediate help to the stranded students. The student recalled that a senior student approached all the Pakistani students to collect their cellular phone numbers and addresses and later arranged for their travelling to the airport amid strict security.
As many as 269 Pakistanis, studying at medical and engineering universities in different cities of Kyrgyzstan, were stranded when the law and order situation took an ugly turn in the wake of riots.
The students belonged to Peshawar, Charsadda, Mardan, Dir and other parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as several towns of Punjab, Karachi and Balochistan. Khizer Hayat, brother of another student from Manga Dargai, Imtiaz, said they were in contact with their brother who was stranded in his apartment and was going without food and water.
A large number of students had enrolled themselves in universities of Kyrgyzstan after they were refused admission in local medical and engineering institutions. They opted to obtain a degree from Kyrgyzstan instead of getting admission through self-finance system.The news
