By Our Staff Reporter
Lahore: One of Pakistan’s leading private university expelled two students for proposing themselves in public.
According to a statement issued by the registrar of the varsity, a special disciplinary committee meeting was held on March 12 at 10:30am and the two students were called in but failed to appear. The committee then decided to expel the two students and ban them from entering any of the university’s campuses.
The university says they violated Section 9 of its General Discipline Rules and Code of Conduct. These rules are not published online, Dawn reported.
Multiple videos were uploaded online of the “incident”. The videos show a young woman handing roses and cards to a young man and then bending down on one knee and holding out a bouquet of roses to him. He takes the roses and then pulls her in for a hug. A crowd of students surrounds the couple and cheers them on.
After the university expelled the couple people took to Twitter to discuss the incident.
Some thought expelling them was the right thing to do because their behaviour was inappropriate. One Twitter user suggested that the only reason they were expelled was because the proposal went viral online. Others thought there are a lot of other issues for the university to be concerned with, such as harassment.