PAKISTAN: TALIBAN EXECUTE WOMAN FOR COMMITTING "ADULTERY"

the Pakistani Taliban executed a married woman after pronouncing her guilty of committing "adultery" in the troubled northwestern Swat valley. The Taliban tried the woman in a "Shariah court" in the Matta sub-district of Swat for allegedly committing adultery and found her guilty. They then asked her brother-in-law to shoot her dead in their presence. The brother-in-law killed the woman by spraying bullets at her, The News daily reported.