Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said it “pained” him to see the Minar-e-Pakistan incident in which hundreds of men assaulted a woman on Independence Day, and called it a source of “shame” for the country.
“The Minar-e-Pakistan incident, when I saw it, I was ashamed, it pained me to see it.
“No one could have imagined such an incident taking place [in Pakistan] when I was growing up,” PM Imran Khan said, during an event in Lahore, where he stressed on educating the country’s youth in line with Islamic teachings.
The premier said he has travelled across the world, and while he was growing up, he had observed that Pakistanis respected women much more than the Western world.
“The downfall that we are witnessing is because our children are not being educated in the right manner. This is not a part of our culture and neither of our religion,” he said, referring to the behaviour that was displayed by the mob, at the Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore on August 14.
