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Swarajya Staff
Jun 13, 2019, 06:56 PM | Updated 06:56 PM IST
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Pakistan’s Federal Minister for water resources Faisal Vawda has called for an extrajudicial hanging of 5,000 citizens to change the fortunes of the Islamic nation (for the better).
In a video posted by journalist Hamid Mir, the Minister can be seen boasting that his government would have hanged 5,000 people if it had the power, to change the fortunes of 22 crore people in the country.
Federal Minister @FaisalVawdaPTI want to hang 5000 people but he think constitution is a big hurdle pic.twitter.com/5C0CVKdqdZ
— Hamid Mir (@HamidMirPAK) June 11, 2019
After being questioned if legal proceedings could be followed to ensure the hanging of 5,000 people - whose identity has yet not been disclosed, the minister claimed that it was impossible to implement.
He also claimed that if his government makes the list public, those on it would run away from the country.