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Pakistan’s Imran Khan revisits his comments blaming women for the nation’s rape crisis

In a June interview with Axios, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan blamed women who dress provocatively for the country’s rising number of rapes. “If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots. It’s common sense,” Khan said. In a new interview with Judy Woodruff, Khan said that his comments were taken out of context, and that anyone who commits rape is solely responsible for the crime.

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