{"id":33441,"date":"2021-06-25T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/25\/outrage-after-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-blames-crisis-on-women"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:59:48","slug":"outrage-after-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-blames-rape-crisis-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33441","title":{"rendered":"Outrage after Pakistan PM Imran Khan blames rape crisis on women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khan accused of being a \u2018rape apologist\u2019 after saying rise in attacks is down to women wearing \u2018very few clothes\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Imran Khan, is facing backlash after he blamed victims of rape for wearing \u201cvery few clothes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The former cricket captain was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Engr_Naveed111\/status\/1406932987208339460\">questioned<\/a> by the Axios journalist Jonathan Swan about the ongoing \u201crape epidemic\u201d in Pakistan and responded by saying: \u201cIf a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots. It\u2019s common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/25\/outrage-after-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-blames-crisis-on-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khan accused of being a \u2018rape apologist\u2019 after saying rise in attacks is down to women wearing \u2018very few clothes\u2019Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Imran Khan, is facing backlash after he blamed victims of rape for wearing \u201cvery few clothes\u201d.The former cricket&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2278,"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":[359,60,242,61,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441","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\/2278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33442,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33441\/revisions\/33442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}