FAISALABAD – A university in Punjab province has decided to celebrate‘Sisters Day’ instead of Valentine’s Day on February 14.
The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad will not be allowing its studentsto celebrate Valentine’s Day to promote eastern values and Islamic culture,according to the university’s vice-chancellor.
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of SaintValentine, is celebrated annually on February 14, and is seen as purely aChristian event in many Muslim countries.
“We are preparing a plan to distribute scarf, shawls and gowns printed withUAF insignia among female students on the day,” Dr Zafar Iqbal Randhawasaid in a statement on Sunday. “In our culture, women are more empoweredand earn due respects as sisters, mothers, daughters and wife.”
The VC proudly took credit for the idea and requested “wealthy” people todonate money to buy the gowns and scarves.
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He also inaugurated the signage titled “I love UAF” established near ClockTower of the university.
Dr Randhawa further said that the youth must devote their energies towardstheir education, knowledge and become the skilled manpower. “In the modernera, only knowledge-based economies will flourish. We have to inculcateknowledge of our heroes’ lives in the youth so that they can prove theirmettle by following their footprints,” he added.
The University of Agriculture (UAF) is ranked 4th in Pakistan and 1st inthe field of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences by HEC Ranking 2015.