Women Wearing Few Clothes Impact Men, Unless They’re Robots: Pak PM On Rapes
Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan in an interview with ‘Axios on HBO’ spoke about rising rapes in his country and said, “If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it’ll have an impact on the men, unless they’re robots. It’s common sense.”
“This is cultural imperialism. Whatever is acceptable in our culture, must be accepted everywhere else. It’s not,” he added.
Imran Khan’s comments in the interview have triggered massive outrage on social media, with opposition leaders and journalists expressing anger and hatred against the wrong ideology.
International Commission of Jurists’ legal advisor Reema Umar expressed her dismay after Khan reiterated his stand on victim-blaming in sexual violence cases.
“Disappointing and frankly sickening to see PM Imran Khan repeat his victim-blaming regarding reasons for sexual violence in Pakistan Men are not “robots”, he says. If they see women in skimpy clothes, they will get “tempted” and some will resort to rape,” Omer said.
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As many as 11 rape incidents are reported in Pakistan every day in November 2020, with over 22,000 cases reported in the last six years. However, the conviction rate of these crimes is only 0.03 per cent, as only 77 of the accused have been convicted till then, ANI reported citing Pakistan’s official data.
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