Video shows Taliban stoning a woman

REUTERS, Sep 28, 2010, 01.20am IST
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ISLAMABAD: Turbaned men in Pakistan gather around a woman with a black hood over her head, pick up large rocks and repeatedly throw them at her until she lies motionless, stretched along the ground. 

The stoning in the northwest of the country was apparently carried out by Pakistani Taliban militants, incensed because she was seen out with a man.

It was shown in a video obtained by a Dubai television station. The footage is a stark reminder that despite a series of military offensives the military said had weakened insurgents, militants still control areas of northwest Pakistan and impose their harsh version of Islam at will.

Al Aan television, which focuses on women's issues in the Arab world, said it obtained the tape from its "sources" and that it took place in Orakzai agency in the northwest.

It said it had other footage of a man who was executed by shooting, possibly the one the woman was seen with. Such videos aren't unique. Last year footage showed militants in the Swat Valley publicly flogging a teenage girl accused of having an affair. reuters

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