Women with few clothes will have impact on men, PM Imran

LAHORE: (Web Desk) Prime Minister Imran Khan while reacting to the rising incidents of sexual violence in Pakistan said women with few clothes will leave impact on men.

In an interview with Axios’s Johnathan Swan Imran Khan spoke over increasing incidents of sexual assaults on women. Referring to the prime minister’s earlier remarks on vulgarity that triggered a backlash on social media, Swan asked: “On increasing vulgarity, you said it will have consequences, and you were accused of rape victim-blaming. How do you respond to that?”

“It is such nonsense,” the prime minister responded. “I never said veils– this was never said. I said the concept of pardah is [to] avoid temptation in society. We don’t have discos here, we don’t have nightclubs,” he said.

The prime minister added, “So this is a completely different society, a way of life here. So, if you raise temptation in the society to the point, and all these young guys have nowhere to go, it has consequences on the society.”

“Do you think what women wear–that, that’s part of any temptation?” asked Swan.

“If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on men,” responded PM Imran Khan. “Unless they’re robots. I mean, it’s common sense.”

“Yes, but will it really provoke acts of sexual violence?” asked Swan.

“It depends which society you live in,” answered PM Imran Khan. “If in a society, people haven’t seen that sort of a thing, it will have an impact on them,” he added.