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Charsadda's Bacha Khan University administration sent out a notification earlier this month banning male students or employees from "idle sitting" or roaming with female students, a move which stirred a controversy on social media after the notification became public on Monday.
The notification, issued by the university's Chief Proctor Muhammad Shakeel, also imposed a ban on smoking, the use of chaadar, using the rooftops of campus buildings and ragging new students.
University spokesperson Saeed Khan, however, denied knowledge of any such notification while speaking to the media.
Dr Shakeel, on the other hand, defended the move while speaking to the media, DawnNews reported. He said that the decision had been taken in the larger interest of the students "as they waste a lot of their time roaming around the campus".
He strongly denied the notion that the university was being turned into a madrassah.
The university was forced to close in January 2016 for two weeks after an attack on its campus claimed over 20 lives.
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Dec 25, 2017 02:51pm
such a shame
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Dec 25, 2017 02:58pm
Good going Pakistan
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Dec 25, 2017 03:06pm
Very progressive move.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:10pm
Is that a university or school???
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Dec 25, 2017 03:18pm
Keeping university a place to get education is a good move.
As it's not a place for socialising or finding partners
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Dec 25, 2017 03:25pm
Good move university is a place for study and not datting
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Dec 25, 2017 03:27pm
what a ridiculous notification, enforcing the misogynistic paternalism is now university policy now is it?
Frankly the people responsible are in the wrong job and should be sacked.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:29pm
@Ahmed why stop there why not just lock both your sons and daughters up at home and never let them see daylight! They may actually learn to treat each other as human beings.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:30pm
Good decision. In an Islamic country this practice should not be allowed.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:34pm
Those sitting idle together and roaming purposeless must be facilititated to intermarry, less they should leave the campus.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:35pm
Very good move, Pakistan zindabad,
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Dec 25, 2017 03:36pm
Keep students on their toes by getting them involve in various productive activities. In our universities there are only routine classes and the exam other than that almost nothing. Only study and exam can be boring which make students sitting idle around spending more time in café etc
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Dec 25, 2017 03:36pm
Good decision
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Dec 25, 2017 03:36pm
Shame on university and KPK government for inaction against this regressive moral brigade.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:37pm
University has banned male students from "idle sitting" with female students, So as long as male students are doing something with the female students and not sitting idly it is fine. I wish I had gone to this university.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:44pm
The right step, should have been taken much earlier.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:46pm
@Irfan_Sydney Like your sense of humor.
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Dec 25, 2017 03:48pm
The noti e says "rigging" instead of ragging. Either the proctor is careless or ill-educated or both.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:25pm
A path breaking step, I must confess.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:34pm
Good move indeed. By this move the parents who had some problem in sending their daughters to university, now they will send them. Hope rise in strength of female students after this move.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:45pm
great action ever i have seen, in broad sense it is a good step for improvement of education, those who condemn the decision want to marred the education system, now a days the girls had spoiled the GPA system, one my request that for improvement further need a major step to open a board for all universities in KP for paper checking, because due to girls discriminant over boys had devastated the quality of education.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:46pm
Very interesting to see how male-female interactions are looked at with suspicion. FYI that many playboy (female) models were from conservative religious families. Like it or not, it is a fact.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:49pm
Great step. This is completely in line with Islamic teachings and should be respected to and adhered to by all Muslims not only here but in every part of their country and world.
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Dec 25, 2017 04:50pm
It is absolutely a moral order. I don't why it has become a news. A routine matter order in a university.
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Dec 25, 2017 05:51pm
These kinds of moves by authorities are another indication we have yet to grow up.
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Dec 25, 2017 06:28pm
Why the ban on "chaddar"?
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Dec 25, 2017 06:31pm
A great step; must in our culture.
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Dec 25, 2017 06:35pm
Very good decision
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Dec 25, 2017 06:57pm
Good ideas
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Dec 25, 2017 07:21pm
Good decision.
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Dec 25, 2017 07:45pm
Roads....water....human rights....healthcare....education....corruption are all fixed and now they are focusing on very important issues. No wonder we are behind everyone else.
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Dec 25, 2017 08:22pm
Don't treat adults like children
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Dec 25, 2017 08:37pm
Must be imposed in every educational Institute of coeducational
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Dec 25, 2017 09:08pm
@Farooq . It would be good to go and study abroad with this mindset?
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Dec 25, 2017 09:15pm
Colleges and Universities should be dedicated to be a place of learning. Personal and social interactions certainly belong outside the educational domain. The Universities should dedicate a special place like a student Union area or a building with indoor sports, restaurants and meeting rooms for joint student extra curricular activities.
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Dec 25, 2017 09:25pm
What is this? Absolutely absurd.Alot of controversies will emerge due to this controversial law. Different people will interpret this law differently. Unnecessarily friction will erupt due to this law. Let's hope salinity will prevail and this law will be cancelled.
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Dec 25, 2017 09:33pm
We need men and women working side by side for the future of this country...why are we so judgemental ...folks let me be blunt ..there is a thing line between friday after noon and friday and saturday night ...
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Dec 25, 2017 09:36pm
Rigging or ragging?
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Dec 25, 2017 10:09pm
How does the university administration define 'idle sitting', before it proceeds to enforce the unenforceable?
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Dec 25, 2017 10:15pm
They should sit idly seperately...lol. this place is a joke!
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Dec 25, 2017 10:15pm
@Thinking BOTH
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Dec 25, 2017 10:16pm
Good move; uniersity is for education and not for socialization.
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Dec 25, 2017 10:16pm
@Ahmed it is also a place where people come together to exchange ideas and discuss things. Books can be read at home!
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Dec 25, 2017 10:45pm
@Juned Ali - what's datting?
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Dec 25, 2017 10:47pm
When we are going to let our university students to have a responsible role in their lives and for Pakistan?
Are these students not eligible to vote or over 18 years of age?
Please let them grow normally so they can be thoughtful citizens.
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Dec 25, 2017 10:52pm
Enforced conservatism has already left us no where among the nations of the world. Such a shame that we value forced conservatism more than science and technology.
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Dec 25, 2017 11:05pm
nothing wrong with this move.. students should not be sitting "idle"...
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Dec 25, 2017 11:06pm
Great
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Dec 25, 2017 11:08pm
Use of Chader is banned, that is good.
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Dec 26, 2017 12:27am
what a place run by monkeys!
Sitting idle with females is not allowed. So idle sitting of male students together or females with females should have no problem, I guess.
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Dec 26, 2017 12:51am
Good ! That shows how broad minded we are.
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Dec 26, 2017 01:24pm
good decision .. thumbs up !
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Dec 26, 2017 04:07pm
So how they will control? Will there be a moral police? Who will decide that they are sitting idle?? Action that make no sense and impossible to implement.
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Dec 27, 2017 08:00am
good move.
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