Pakistan PM Imran Khan turns 69 today: Take a look at some controversies linked to cricketer-politician
Imran turns 69 today
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan turned 69 years old on Tuesday. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman was born on the 5th of October 1952 to a well-off Pashtun family in Mianwali. Political leaders, celebrities, fans, and PTI supporters took to social media to wish the prime minister his birthday.
The Pakistani PM is not new to controversies and several of his statements have raised eyebrows across the world. During his three-year tenure in office, Khan has made controversial, sometimes hilarious, and bizarre comments evoking sharp criticism from all quarters.
'Shackles of slavery'
'Rapes rising due to mobile phones'
'Women in less clothes will have impact on men’
In an interview with Axios’ journalist Jonathan Swan on HBO in June, the Pak PM had said, “If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots. It’s common sense.” Following widespread flak, he backtracked on his remark saying he would "never say such a stupid thing."
Sharing fake video on Twitter
Laden a 'shaheed'
‘Obscenity’ a Western import
Imran Khan has recently put the blame of English medium education system, inherited from the British Rulers, for rising cultural differences and people’s growing alienation with Islam.
The PTI leader said that the British built such schools to "create an elite class in (undivided) India which is Indian in colour but thinks like us (the British), has our attitudes and through whom we can govern such a big continent". In an interview with Geo News, he blamed ‘obscenity’ for rising sexual violence cases in the country.