It was not clear what the young woman was accused of.One account said she had stepped out of her house without being escorted by a male family member, according to Samar Minallah, a rights activist. Ms. Minallah said she distributed the video to local news outlets after it was sent to her by someone from Swat three days ago.
Another account said a local Taliban commander had falsely accused the teenager of violating Islamic law after she refused to accept his marriage proposal.
A Taliban spokesman defended the punishment to the Geo Television Network but said it should not have been done in public.
You can watch this barbarism here.
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These people are, definitionally, barbarians. We have no business attempting to deal with them. This is a part of the world that should simply be quarantined. To think that we are going to make a difference in this society is foolish, and I am afraid that Afghanistan will be Obama's Viet Nam, or Iraq.
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