Pak university imposes fine on students for listening to loud music on campus

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:  The Gomal University in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently fined two of its students for listening to loud music in the teaching area of the varsity campus.
According to Geo News, the university located in Dera Ismail Khan, imposed a fine of Pakistani Rs 5,000 fine on two students of its Institute of Computing and Information Technology (ICIT) Department on Friday.
Chairman of the ICIT Department, Zia Ud Din, said the two students had been playing music on a Bluetooth speaker in a teaching area of the varsity.  He added that their action “disturbed the classes ongoing in the department at the time”.
“Both students were warned multiple times to stop [the music] and were fined when they did not [pay] heed to the requests,” the chairman was quoted as saying.  He added that the speaker was also confiscated from the students.
One of the students, who was fined, was enrolled in a master’s programme in the department, while the other is studying for his undergraduate degree.