Outrage after Pakistan’s Imran Khan links rape to how women dress

Khan faces backlash for saying increase in rapes indicated ‘consequences in any society where vulgarity is on the rise’.

Pakistani women activists and rights campaigners have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of “baffling ignorance” after the cricketer-turned-politician blamed how women dress for a rise in rape cases. In a weekend interview on live television, Oxford-educated Khan said an increase in rapes indicated the “consequences in any society where vulgarity is on the rise”. “The incidents of rape of women … [have] actually very rapidly increased in society,” he said.