Criminals in Afghanistan will continue to be punished...

Criminals in Afghanistan will continue to be punished with amputations and stonings under Islamic Sharia law as part of the interim government's efforts to crack down on crime, Chief Justice Fazul Hadi Shinwari said.
Chief Justice Shinwari said he wanted adulterers whipped or stoned to death, the hands of robbers amputated and murderers publicly executed, just as the fundamentalist Taliban punished criminals during their six-year rule.
"God says that some people need to be present to witness the punishment as a lesson," he said in an interview.