PTI's Shahryar Afridi wants to target dissident MNAs with suicide attack

• "I would have conducted a suicide attack, targeting the ‘hypocrites’ sitting in the NA," says Afridi.
• Afridi says had it not been "haram" to commit suicide, he would have targeted them by strapping explosives to his body.
• Civil Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan had also threatened Opposition parties that he would turn into a suicide bomber.

KOHAT: After several PTI lawmakers joined the Opposition against Prime Minister Imran Khan, Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shahryar Khan Afridi expressed his wish to target the dissident "hypocrite" MNAs by conducting a suicide attack.

Afridi was speaking at a corner meeting of the party workers on Friday — who are going to attend the "Amr Bil Maroof Jalsa" of their party scheduled to be held in Islamabad on March 27.

"I would have conducted a suicide attack, targeting the 'hypocrites' sitting in the National Assembly if committing suicide had not been against the teachings of Islam," he said.

In a reference to the dissident PTI MNAs, who have threatened to defect and vote against the prime minister in the no-confidence motion, Afridi said that had it not been "haram" (something that is against the teachings of Islam) to commit suicide, he would have targeted them by strapping explosives to his body.

He said that he would have destroyed the foundations of the "hypocrites", who were "undermining" the country. 

Shahryar Khan Afridi is the second member of Prime Minister Imran Khan's cabinet who has made such a statement.

Earlier, Civil Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan threatened the Opposition parties that he would turn into a suicide bomber and blow up the entire Opposition. 

“The suicide is ‘haram’, but I wish to be a suicide bomber and blow up the entire Opposition,” the minister had told a rally and it had gone viral.