LAHORE, July 16: An academician across the border, who used to bar her students from discussing romance, never knew she would herself fall for someone one day.

A history teacher at the Delhi University, Dr Fatima Husain married World Punjab Congress chairman and former PPP leader Fakhar Zaman recently.

Dr Husain, who met Zaman for the fist time at a conference here last year, admits it was love at first sight.

“He impressed me so much that I could not think of living without him,” she said while celebrating her marriage at a local hotel on Saturday evening.

Zaman said he had been feeling lonely after the death of his first wife last year.

“I had decided to remarry in case I found a learned woman.”

He said he had found in Ms Husain what he desired.

“A relation that started from a conference went too far that we decided to wed.”

The nikah ceremony held quietly about five weeks ago was attended by close friends. The couple then left the city for honeymoon to Sweden and other European states.

They returned on Tuesday and made their union public only on Saturday.

Zaman hoped that the relation would help them work more for building bridges between the two South Asian neighbours.