A new video has surfaced showing the Taliban [ Images ] beheading, shooting and whipping tribesmen in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
The new video comes even as the world condemned the Taliban for beheading two Sikhs in the same area a few days back.
This video, released from the Orakzai agency -- a stronghold of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- shows four persons being penalised by the Taliban court. A cleric is shown issuing decrees. Some locals identified the cleric as Maulana Tofaan, a senior TTP leader in the area, while others identified him as someone from Waziristan.
In the first case, a man, said to be a member of the Shiite force, is brought before the Taliban court. According to the Taliban, he is an infidel who fought against the Taliban; he need not to live anymore and should be slaughtered. Simultaneously, he is laid on to the ground and a militant comes forward and slits his throat.
In the second case, a tribesman confesses before the court to having killed two persons. 'My death penalty would also help the rest of my family to lead a tension free life,' the murderer says in the video footage. The Taliban court awards him death penalty; he is shot in his head.
In the third case, a tribesman charged with being an American informer is brought before the court. He allegedly guided the Americans in locating key Taliban leaders and other Al-Qaeda [ Images ] members' hideouts to facilitate drone attacks. The man is killed using explosives.
The fourth case involved an Afghan youth, who was whipped for teasing girls.
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