LAHORE – A public university in Pakistan’s Punjab province has issued a new dress code for its male and female universities.
This development comes months after the Federal Directorate of Education issued a directive in this regard.
Reports said that the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) sub-campus in Toba Tek Singh has issued a notification, stating that the male students will not allowed to wear shorts, cut-off jeans, multi-pocket, faded, torn and skin-fitted jeans and trousers, T-shirts with messages of any kind.
Students have also been barred from wearing of chappals, and slippers, bandanas, caps, vest of any kind, long hair and ponytails, earrings, wrist straps, and bracelets.
According to dress code for female students, girls were also banned from wearing T-shirts with jeans, sleeveless shirts, see-through and skintight dresses. They have also been barred from wearing flashy jewellery, anklets, and using heavy make-up, the report added.
Earlier in September, the Federal Directorate of Education, which oversees educational institutions in the federal capital, barred women teachers from wearing jeans and t-shirts.
Earlier this year, two universities in Khyber Pakhutunkhwa imposed a dress code for their male and female students and staff.
Read more: https://pakobserver.net/two-kp-varsities-impose-dress-codes-ban-fitted-jeans-tee-shirts/
