In a set of shocking images that have emerged from Afghanistan, three men are hung from excavators in the western province of Herat. The pictures were taken by the Sun, which said in reports that men were accused of indulging in kidnapping.
Tabloid quoted Deputy Governor of Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir to report that the three men were killed after entering the man’s house to seize him.
The Sun report also said in his report that locals were seen clicking on photographs of the body hanging on their neck in the OBE Herat district in full public view.
In the past week, the Taliban had arrested 85 alleged criminals, several accused of committing small crimes, and other killings, kidnappings and robbery, said Noor Ahmad Rabbani from the Group Anti-Crime Department.
At least two occasions in Kabul, trigger thieves were paraded on the streets to embarrass them, handcuffed, with their faces painted or with stale bread in their mouths.
Since the Taliban took over, many Afghans were afraid of hard punishment to return, according to the hardline ideology of the group’s practice. During their last period in power in the late 1990s, the Taliban imposed their hard interpretation of Islamic law.
It includes punishment such as hand amputation, killer execution with one bullet to the head, most often by relatives of murder victims and all done in public. Religious police beaten men to cut their beards or because they did not attend prayers.
Taliban Toki Gun has taken a position at the checkpoint in Kabul and has gradually been made to wear a uniform – the beginning of new national security forces, reporting news agencies, quoting officials.
For many residents of Kabul, the view of the fighters was scary when they roamed the streets, with their typical long hair, traditional dresses and Kalhnikov rifles hanging on their side.
