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Hundreds of Pakistanis took to the streets in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore on Monday to protest Israel s continued attacks on Gaza, demanding that the Pakistani government as well as world powers intervene to stop the deadly violence that has now claimed more than 200 overwhelmingly Palestinian lives.
In Lahore, the Progressive Students Collective (PSC) and Lahore University of Management Sciences (Lums) students staged a protest at Liberty Chowk in solidarity with the Palestinians and against the Israeli government.
The protest was joined by at least 800 students and local activists.
Protesters hold placards as they take part in a demonstration in support of Palestine during an anti-Israel protest rally in Lahore on Monday. AFP
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Published on: Monday, March 15, 2021
By: AFP
Screengrab of the viral video.
LAHORE: A university in deeply conservative Pakistan expelled two students who embraced after getting engaged on campus, after a video of the incident spread on social media this week.
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 of Lahore said the pair had acted “in violation of university rules”.
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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”.