Kyrgyzstan bans Bangladeshi students from working as couriers

Kyrgyzstan’s police conducted awareness-raising efforts with students from Bangladesh. The country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs highlighted that international students residing in the capital city of Bishkek are supposed to study and not work as couriers.

At a recent meeting of the parliamentary committee on law and order, combating crime and corruption, Nurbek Abdiev, deputy minister of internal affairs, stated that foreigners studying at Kyrgyz universities cannot work as couriers in Bishkek, as reported by the 24.kg news agency.

«Students from Bangladesh studying in Bishkek should not be working as couriers. We fined them, and their scooters were taken to an impound lot. They violated traffic rules. Those who came here to study should focus on their education,» Abdiev said.

The restrictions do not apply to foreign nationals who entered Kyrgyzstan under a labor quota.

On New Year’s Eve, international students from a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan, were involved in a mass brawl at a café. Following the incident, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Science and Higher Education Sayasat Nurbek announced that six students from India would be deported.