: ‘Women wearing few clothes will have an impact on men’: Imran Khan’s remarks draw wide criticism #IndiaNEWS An outcry erupted on Monday after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested that

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‘Women wearing few clothes will have an impact on men’: Imran Khan’s remarks draw wide criticism #IndiaNEWS
An outcry erupted on Monday after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan suggested that women’s clothing influences sexual violence. “If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on the men, unless they’re robots,� Khan said in an interview to American news website Axios. Snippets of the interview, which is expected to be out later this week, were released on social media on Monday.The prime minister was also asked about comments he made in April linking the rise in sexual violence to “increasing obscenity� in society, according to Dawn. Activists had denounced his comments at that time for perpetuating a culture of victim blaming.“The concept of purdah is to avoid temptation in society,� Khan told Axios. “We don’t have discos here [in Pakistan], we don’t have nightclubs, so it is a completely different society, way of life here, so if you raise temptation in society to the point and all these young guys have nowhere to go, it has consequences in the society.�Pakistan Muslim League spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb castigated Khan for his remarks, calling him “sick, misogynistic and degenerate�. “It is not women’s choices that lead to sexual assault rather the choices of men who choose to engage in this despicable and vile crime,� she tweeted. “Maybe the misogynist, degenerate can defend...Read more

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