London, Jan 27 (IANS) A 19-year-old Afghan woman and her alleged lover have been stoned to death by terrorist outfit Taliban, after she reportedly ran away from an arranged marriage, reveals a new video released on websites.
Hundreds of villagers can be seen in the video, standing around as 19-year-old Siddqa, is buried up to her waist in a hole in the ground.
Two mullahs – Islamic clerics – pass the sentence, before the crowd begins to throw rocks at her head and body as she desperately tries to crawl free.
After she collapses to the ground, covered in blood, but miraculously still alive, a Taliban militant shoots her three times, according to the Daily Mail.
Her alleged lover – Khayyam – is then marched in front of the crowd with his hands tied behind his back.
He is blindfolded and crouches down close to the ground as he tries to protect his body from the stones. But he is battered to the floor by a barrage of rocks, before falling silent.
The stoning took place in Dashte Archi district in Kunduz province in August last year.
Siddqa had reportedly run away with her lover after being sold into an arranged marriage for $9,000.
Police chief General Daoud Daoud told the BBC: ‘Special police investigators will be sent there, we will find them and they will be brought to justice.’
The couple reportedly eloped to Pakistan, but were lured back with a false promise that they would not be harmed.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has, however, defended the stoning.
‘Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Quran, and that it is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman – but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country,’ he was quoted as saying.
