taliban: Witness: Taliban hang dead body in Afghan city’s main square

The Taliban hanged a useless physique from a crane in the principle sq. of Herat metropolis in western Afghanistan, a witness mentioned Saturday, in a ugly show that signaled a return to a few of the Taliban’s strategies of the previous.

Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the aspect of the sq., informed The Related Press that 4 our bodies have been delivered to the sq. and three our bodies have been moved to different squares within the metropolis to be displayed.

Seddiqi mentioned the Taliban introduced within the sq. that the 4 have been caught participating in a kidnapping and have been killed by police.

Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban appointed district police chief in Herat, mentioned later that Taliban members rescued a father and son who had been kidnapped by 4 kidnappers after an alternate of gunfire. He mentioned a Taliban fighter and a civilian have been wounded by the abductors however “the 4 (kidnappers) have been killed in crossfire.”

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of many founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic regulation after they final dominated Afghanistan, informed The Related Press this week that the hard-line motion will as soon as once more perform executions and amputations of palms, although maybe not in public.

For the reason that Taliban overran Kabul on Aug. 15 and seized management of the nation, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether or not they may re-create their harsh rule of the late Nineties. The group’s leaders stay entrenched in a deeply conservative, hard-line worldview, even when they’re embracing technological modifications, like video and cellphones.