By DPA
Kabul : The Taliban have executed four people in Afghanistan for spying for foreign forces and the Afghanistan government, Taliban sources said Monday.
A teenager was hanged in Sangin district of Helmand province Sunday night apparently for giving information on the Taliban hideouts to government and foreign forces.
Sangin district chief, Haji Ezatullah, said the 15-year-old boy was found hanged to an electricity column.
Local fighters claiming to be Taliban said they were behind the hanging because the boy was a spy – but there was no claim of responsibility from Taliban spokesman.
Also in Ghazni province, a tailor was beheaded, in broad daylight, out of the town where he was working on Sunday by Taliban rebels, officials said Monday.
The tailor, Muhammad Kabir, was taken from his shop and beheaded out of Liwanai town in Qarabagh district.
Qarabagh district chief Khwaja Muhammad Seddiqi told DPA that the tailor’s only sin was that he was sewing cloths for local soldiers.
Seddiqi and local residents said the armed men were Taliban.
In Kapisa province, to the northeast of Kabul, the Taliban executed a man for the same charge.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said they shot dead Gul Dad for spying for the US-led Coalition troops in the province. However, local officials said the victim was “an ordinary man”.
The fourth case of execution took place in the southeastern Paktika province Sunday night.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told DPA that Kakai Khan was “found guilty of giving intelligence to the US-led forces against the Taliban”. He said the man was killed after he confessed to “this crime” during investigation.
Such executions and beheadings have been common in past two years in Afghanistan by Taliban fighters.