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AFGHANISTAN - TALIBAN LASH GIRL FOR
DEFYING FORCED MARRIAGE
The incident
has happened a month ago in Bala Murghab district of Badghis province.
The girl was lashed in public for refusing to marry an old
man.
The lash order has reportedly been issued by a Pakistani
Taliban commander in the province.
Meanwhile, head of the clerics council in the western
region, Maulawi Khudadad Saleh, described the beating as inhumane, adding that
such acts are deliberately committed to damage Islam.
"This is unacceptable and totally against Islam,"
said Maulawi Khudadad Saleh.
Reports suggested that the girl was lashed in Mungan
village in Bala Murghab district of the province around one month ago.
A videotape obtained by TOLO news shows a Taliban man
lashing a girl while she is lying on the ground with her feet and hands being
tightly held by two other Taliban men.
She is being lashed hardly while screaming with pain
before the eyes of locals.
Some locals said a Pakistani Taliban fighter had ordered
the summary punishment.
Nobody has been detained in connection with the incident.
Badghis governor said he was unaware of what had happened.
Remote areas that are under Taliban control have been the
scene of such punishments.
Previously the Taliban had stoned a couple to death on
charges of marrying each other without the consent of their families.