Taliban fighters publicly flogged 65 men after they were convicted by a militant “court” for selling and using drugs in the restive Orakzai tribal region, barely days after a senior official had claimed that 90 per cent of the area had been cleared of rebels.
Members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan detained 65 tribesmen on the “charge” of selling and using hashish and heroin.
The men were brought before a “ Shariah court” in Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency and they reportedly admitted they had violated a Taliban-imposed ban on using and selling drugs.
After they were “sentenced” by the militant court, the men were taken to a ground on Sunday and each of them was given 10 lashes by Taliban fighters as a large crowd watched.
Hafiz Saeed, the Taliban spokesman in Orakzai Agency, told reporters on phone that the tribesmen had confessed to the “Shariah court” that they had been using drugs despite warnings by the militants.
He said the men were publicly punished so that no one would dare violate the Taliban’s warnings in the tribal region.
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