{"id":33586,"date":"2021-07-01T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/imran-khan-comments-about-and-purdah-were-taken-out-of-context"},"modified":"2021-07-01T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:18:59","slug":"imran-khans-comments-about-rape-and-purdah-were-taken-out-of-context-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33586","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan\u2019s comments about rape and purdah were taken out of context | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Raoof Hasan<\/strong>, special assistant to Imran Khan, responds to criticism of the Pakistani prime minister\u2019s remarks on women and sexual assault<\/p>\n<p>Much is being made of comments by Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Imran Khan, on the observance of purdah in Islam and how, in certain cases, it may help in the avoidance of rape crimes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/25\/outrage-after-pakistan-pm-imran-khan-blames-crisis-on-women\">Outrage after Pakistan PM Imran Khan blames rape crisis on women<\/a>, 25 June<strong>)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is to the credit of Imran Khan\u2019s government that a series of groundbreaking laws have been enacted in quick sequence by parliament for safeguarding human rights, the rights of women, minority communities and parents\u2019 protection. This being unprecedented, it also speaks volumes of the unshakable commitment of the prime minister to the establishment of a just and equitable society where every individual will be treated equally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/imran-khan-comments-about-and-purdah-were-taken-out-of-context\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raoof Hasan, special assistant to Imran Khan, responds to criticism of the Pakistani prime minister\u2019s remarks on women and sexual assaultMuch is being made of comments by Pakistan\u2019s prime minister, Imran Khan, on the observance of purdah in Islam and h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"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":[237,646,359,447,86,60,242,371,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-gender","category-imran-khan","category-islam","category-law","category-pakistan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-religion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/33586","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33586\/revisions\/33587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}