Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Monday debunked Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s another false narrative that the female workers of his party were being harassed in prisons. “A certified liar who says “men aren’t robots” and advocates attacks on women and young girls because of wearing short clothes is cooking up a new lie to play victim in the aftermath of public response on May 9 tragedy,” the minister said in a long thread on her twitter. She was particularly referring to Imran Khan’s statement which he made in an interview with a foreign media outlet that “If a woman is wearing very few clothes, it will have an impact on the men, unless they’re robots. I mean it is common sense.” Marriyum alleged that Tayyba Gul, who reached out Imran Khan for justice in a case, was abducted and held hostage in the Prime Minister’s House. The evidence, she provided, was then used to blackmail the then National Accountability Bureau chairman so that the then opposition leaders could be put in death cells. All the limits were crossed during Imran Khan’s government tenure to maltreat the women journalists, she said, adding the PTI’s chairman did not even stop there and alleged that the female media persons deliberately sneaked into male-concentrated gatherings. ” This malicious ploy to mislead overseas Pakistanis and the world is bound to fail like Cypher and other dramas,” the minister said while asking Imran Khan to present evidence of his new propaganda of female workers harassment. She asked Imran Khan either present evidence or “keep his mouth shut”. “This is a very serious allegation which we cannot tolerate in any case,” she said clarifying that era of Imran Khan was no more during which “blackmailing and apathy” was at its peak. Branding Imran Khan as “media predator”, she said it was only Imran Khan who could dare to make such horrendous accusations without any evidence. She said Imran Khan got exposed every other day with his lies, fabricated videos and pictures.
