Prime Minister Imran Khan has issued his first public remarks after the assault of a female TikToker by hundreds of men on Independence Day, stating that the incident left him “ashamed and pained.”
Commenting on the outrage after a video of the assault on the 14th of August went viral, the Prime Minister expressed his view: “When I was growing up, nobody could have thought that acts like this would happen. I have been to the entire world; the respect for women I saw while growing up existed in Muslim countries but not in the West. A big reason for the destruction that we’re seeing is that our children are not being brought up properly.”
On this occasion, the PM was speaking at the Punjab Education Convention 2021 in Lahore. According to the PM, “It is very necessary to train our children and there is only one way to do that — make them aware of the life of the Prophet [PBUH].”
The PM expressed his view that crimes such as sexual harrassment and assault were “not part of our culture or religion.”
