By IRNA,
Islamabad : Pakistani Taliban on Saturday publicly executed people in the country’s South Waziristan tribal region, who were held responsible for the killing of a local tribesman.
Armed Taliban executed two local tribesmen Farooq Wazir and Janan Mehsood and an Afghan national outside their office at Makin area in South Waziristan at 10:30 a.m., witnesses said.
Taliban said that the slain people had confessed killing of a local tribesman Intezar Mehsood after snatching 60,000 rupees from him last week.
Local administration has confirmed the incident and said that Taliban have executed the men under the tribal tradition of ‘Lashkar’ or tribal army.
Locals said that a Taliban court tried the accused and handed down death penalty to him.
Taliban have banned kidnappings, robberies and narcotics and have also announced punishment to the contractors for defective work on projects.