Imran Khan Defends China In Axios interview; Blames Women’s Clothing For Rape

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again declared his allegiance to China. In a face-to-face interview, a journalist dried up China’s behavior. Imran Khan dodged the question related to China every time he was asked about it.

In Jonathan Swan’s interview with Khan, which aired on HBO on Sunday as part of Axios, the cricketer-turned-politician expertly, if rather dishonestly, skirted criticizing China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang province. When asked about human rights violations in Xinjiang, Khan stated that “this is not the situation” based on his contacts with Chinese officials.

 In that interview, Swan asked a lot of questions that challenged Imran Khan. One of which was referring to Imran’s letter to Islamic State leaders last year urging them to fight Islamophobia, Swan questioned why they could not do that in the case of China.

“In neighboring western China, the government is capturing and torturing more than one million Uighurs and forcibly performing operations to prevent them from having children. Demolished a mosque in Xingjiang. Punishes those who observe the holy fast during Ramadan. So you who are opposing the Islamophobia going on somewhere in the western countries, why can’t you question the neighboring country china” Swan asked.

Imran Khan, however, said that this was irrelevant and that they had a deep friendship with China, which had defended Pakistan in dire circumstances. He continued to dismiss practically any criticism of his country’s closest partner, China, as evidenced in the interview with Axios last week.

  “Do you think this is not such a serious problem?” When pressed further by Swan. Khan ranted about how he doesn’t comment on what’s going on in other countries because he’s more concerned with what’s going on in his own country and along his border, before adding that the situation in Kashmir “is much more relevant than what might be going on with the Uighurs.”

In his interview with Axios, Khan emphasized, “Our discussions with the Chinese will always be behind closed doors,” which would make one feel that disputes are communicated in secret.

Khan was appreciative of China in January last year by declaring, “If we can learn from any one country in the world, it is China. Their development model suits Pakistan the best.”

Most recently, Khan’s Office tweeted he was “deeply appreciating the leadership of China” (sic) and “reaffirming CPEC’s highest government priority [from Pakistan] and a strong commitment to rapidly complete CPEC projects, opening huge chances for increased economic growth and growth in the region and beyond.”

At the conclusion of the G-7 Summit in Cornwall, Britain, from June 11 to 13, the leaders of the member countries issued a joint statement in which they, among other things, “[called on] China to protect human rights and basic freedoms, particularly in relation to Xinjiang.”

This, unsurprisingly, did not sit well with Beijing, prompting a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom to respond, “The Group of Seven (G-7) uses Xinjiang-related issues to engage in political manipulation and intervene; in China’s internal affairs, which we strongly condemn.”

Imran Khan has also drawn the attention of the whole country. The leader of Pakistan answered a question on his government’s actions in preventing violations and sexual assaults.

For which Imran Khan stated, “If a woman wears very little clothing, the men will be influenced unless they are robots. It is common sense.”

Deceitful and truly saddened to witness PM Imran Khan again blame the victim for sexual abuse in Pakistan. People started telling the PM to apologize for his comments.

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