A private university in Lahore expelled two students who embraced after getting engaged on campus, after a video of the incident spread on social media. In the clip, a female university student gets down on one knee and proposes to her boyfriend; the couple can then be seen hugging and holding bouquets of flowers as onlookers cheer them on and film the scene.
The university said the pair had acted “in violation of university rules”. It added in a statement on Friday that they had failed to appear before a disciplinary hearing and were later expelled for “serious infraction of the code of conduct”. Public displays of affection between couples — whether married or not — are viewed as unacceptable.
“We did nothing wrong, and we are not sorry for this,” the engaged girl tweeted. “Can anyone explain to us what wrong we did by proposing each other in public in the university “, her fiance said, adding that couples had previously proposed to each other on campus. They said they had received online threats for the show of affection.
