Imran Khan’s comments in the interview provoked massive disbelief on social media, opposition leaders and journalists expressing anger and disgust against misogogynistic ideology.
Prime Minister Pakistani Imran Khan drew FLAK after again blamed an increase in cases of sexual violence on how women dress in the country. “If a woman wears very little clothes, he will have an impact on men, unless they are robots. It’s just common sense,” Imran Khan said in an interview with “Axios on HBO” . “It’s cultural imperialism. All that is acceptable in our culture, must be acceptable everywhere else. It’s not,” he added.
Imran Khan’s comments in the interview provoked massive disbelief on social media, opposition leaders and journalists expressing anger and disgust against misogogynistic ideology. “Imran Khan is the apologist R * PE and hates women”, “Anaya Khan, one of the users, tweeted with the video of the interview on the microblogging site.
Reema Omer, Legal Counsel with the International Commission on Jurists, expressed his disappointment after Khan reiterated his position among the victim-blame in case of sexual violence.
“Disappointing and frankly disgusting to see the Imran Khan PM repeats that his victim reproaches the reasons for sexual violence in Pakistani men are not” robots “,” he says. If they see women with clothes dug, they will get “Tempted” and some will resort to rape, “Omer says.
In April, Khan blamed “obscenity” for the rise in sexual violence affairs in Pakistan during a live television interview and advised women to cover to prevent temptation. “All this concept of Purdah is to avoid temptation. Everyone does not have the will to avoid it,” he said.
Hundreds of people mobilized excuses of him for his point of view and held a protest in Islamabad. The protesters criticized Khan for what they called “blame victim” and asked for apologies for the comment.
At least 11 incidents of rape are recorded in Pakistan every day in November 2020, with more than 22,000 cases reported in the last six years. However, the condemnation rate of these crimes is only 0.03%, because only 77 of the accused were sentenced at that time, ANI stated the official data of Pakistan.
