Pride News Daily NEWS
Related Articles
Islamabad-After PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Friday evening issued an objectionable statement against PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz during his Multan address, politicians, journalists, and civil society members have censured Khan for his “sexist and misogynist” comments.
During his jalsa, Khan, referring to Maryam’s Sargodha rally on May 19 in which she continually berated him, said: “Someone had sent me the speech delivered by Maryam Nawaz in Sargodha yesterday.”
“In that speech, she uttered my name with such passion that I would like to tell her: Maryam, please be careful, your husband may get upset because you were constantly repeating my name.”
Following his comments, condemnations started pouring in from politicians and civil society members on social media.
𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗳 𝗭𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗶: Those who have mothers and sisters in their homes do not use such language against other women,” the PPP co-chairman said. “Please, do not stoop so low in the name of politics.
𝗠𝗲𝗵𝗿 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗿: Imran Khan’s comment on Maryam Nawaz is in utterly bad taste, something he should never have said about anyone anywhere. And I condemn it without resorting to any what aboutery.
𝗥𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻: I am very ashamed that I was ever associated with such a bad man.
𝗛𝗥𝗖𝗣: Imran Khan’s vile remarks about Maryam Nawaz at the PTI’s Multan rally have plumbed the depths of misogyny. It is simply unacceptable that the political narrative should crumble into such glaring intolerance and sexism.
