...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province indicate that the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...have publicly lashed a man in the region for engaging in illicit relations. The punishment took place on Thursday morning, June 22, in the Matakhan district.
According to local sources, the Taliban gathered dozens of residents from the district to witness the implementation of this sentence. The Taliban Supreme Court mentioned in a newsletter that the punishment of "whipping" had been issued by a provincial court in Paktika.
Prior to this incident, the Taliban had administered whippings to several men and women in the Paktika region for various offenses, primarily for engaging in illicit relationships. Despite receiving both domestic and international reactions, the group has intensified its public punishments since last year.
In the most recent case, the Taliban carried out a public execution by hanging an individual who had murdered five people in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for
Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province during the week.
This incident marks the second public execution event since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan.