Asif’s sexist vitriol against PTI women draws ire

A sexist remark by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif about his women counterparts from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) soured a joint session of parliament on Tuesday after the PML-N leader received vehement backlash. At this point, the PTI women parliamentarians rose from their seats and demanded that the minister take his words back. However, unconcerned by the growing protests, the defence minister continued, saying, “He (Imran) doesn’t have the courage to appear in courts today … And they defend him. He also called out the defence minister for repeatedly being offensive towards women. “Filth from Khawaja Asif is nothing surprising; all he is capable of doing is spewing dirt on women,” journalist Mehr Tarar wrote on Twitter.