{"id":30696,"date":"2021-04-07T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/pakistani-pm-accused-of-baffling-ignorance-over-comments"},"modified":"2021-04-07T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T13:51:36","slug":"pakistani-pm-blasted-for-blaming-rape-on-how-women-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30696","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani PM blasted for blaming rape on how women dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights campaigners accuse Imran Khan of \u2018baffling ignorance\u2019 amid rise in rape cases<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan rights campaigners have accused the prime minister, Imran Khan, of \u201cbaffling ignorance\u201d after the former cricketer blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases.<\/p>\n<p>In a weekend interview on live television, the Oxford-educated Khan said an increase in rapes indicated the \u201cconsequences in any society where vulgarity is on the rise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/pakistani-pm-accused-of-baffling-ignorance-over-comments\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights campaigners accuse Imran Khan of \u2018baffling ignorance\u2019 amid rise in rape casesPakistan rights campaigners have accused the prime minister, Imran Khan, of \u201cbaffling ignorance\u201d after the former cricketer blamed how women dress for a rise in r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,359,60,242,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions\/30697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}