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A video of a courtship at a Pakistani university led to the expulsion of both students from the school. The couple must also have been exposed to threats.
A courtship at a Pakistani school had dire consequences for the couple. Stock Photography.
In the conservative country, public tenderness is considered unacceptable for cultural and religious reasons.
In the video, shot at a university in Pakistan’s next largest city, Lahore, a woman kneels down and proposes to a man. Then they embrace, bouquets of flowers in hand, to the cheers of the onlookers. Then the clip was broadcast on social media.
According to the university, he broke the rules. The couple is said to have been called to the school’s disciplinary committee, but shouldn’t have turned up. They were later suspended for what the university calls a “serious violation of the code of conduct.”
“We have done nothing wrong and we do not apologize for this,” Hadiqa Javaid, the woman in the clip, wrote on Twitter.
According to her fiancé, Shehryar Ahmed, they weren’t the first couple to propose in this way. The suspension has been criticized by a progressive student association.
