PAKISTAN. MURDER ACCUSED EXECUTED IN PUBLIC

a man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, Pakistan. Thirty-year-old Ihsanullah was brought blindfolded to the execution ground by heirs of the two murdered men.
Two men representing the bereaved families were given Kalashnikovs, each loaded with three bullets, as a local militant read out a brief statement warning others to draw a lesson from the execution. The execution was watched by over a hundred villagers, including children.
Ihsanullah was accused of killing Akhtar Zaman and Inamullah following a dispute on June 22. He was captured by militants soon after the incident.
The militants had asked the bereaved families either to pardon the accused or avenge the murders in accordance with the Islamic principle of an eye for an eye, locals said. The families refused to pardon and chose badal, a Pashto term for revenge, they said.