Beheading In Afghanistan

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  Afghan Women Speak Out On University Ban: "Beheading Would've Been Better"

  Women are now banned from attending university in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where they have been steadily stripped of their freedoms over the past year.

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  Video Goes Viral Of Women Mannequins Being Beheaded In Afghanistan

  The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to cut off the heads of mannequins, insisting the human figures violate Islamic law.

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  The Day After Kashmir Soldier Mutilated, Pak Confirms Sartaj Aziz Visit

  A day after India accused Pakistan of beheading a soldier in Kashmir and killing two others, it has received confirmation that Sartaj Aziz, who functions as Pakistan's Foreign Minister, will attend a regional conference in Amritsar early next month.

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  Afghanistan Militia Beheads 4 ISIS Fighters

  Local village militia members loyal to a powerful Afghan lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State fighters and placed their severed heads on the side of a main road in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Sunday.

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  Afghanistan, US Condemn Beheadings of Shia Women and Child

  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today condemned the beheading of a group of Shia Hazaras, including a child, in the southern province of Zabul, the scene of deadly clashes between rival Taliban groups.

• Afghanistan: Taliban Beheads 12 civilians

  An Afghan official says Taliban insurgents have beheaded 12 civilians and torched some 60 homes in an assault on security forces in the eastern Ghazni province.

• Six contractors found beheaded in Afghanistan

  Afghan police say the decapitated bodies of six government contractors were found in a southern province, apparent victims of Taliban insurgents who regularly target state projects.

• Afghan 'lovers' found beheaded

  A young couple in conservative southern Afghanistan have been found beheaded, apparently killed for having a love affair outside of marriage, officials said today.

• Taliban beheads two boys in southern Afghanistan

  Taliban fighters beheaded two boys aged 10 and 16 as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government, local officials said.

• Afghan girl beheaded for refusing prostitution: Police

  Afghan police have arrested four people who allegedly tried to force a woman into prostitution in western Afghanistan and beheaded her when she refused, officials said on Wednesday.

• Man killed, beheaded in Ranchi

  In a bizarre incident in Ranchi, a man was first shot dead and then his killers beheaded him and took away his head with them, police said on Tuesday. Vinod Rawani was apparently murdered due to a family dispute.

• Afghan beheadings could signal confusion in Taliban ranks

  It was meant to be another night of music and dance, a brief distraction from life in the searing heat and dust of Afghanistan's conservative rural south for a small group of boys and girls in Helmand province's Roshan Abad village. Instead it ended in brutality that even the Taliban's austere leadership are unwilling to be linked with amid off-ag...

• 17 party-goers 'found beheaded' in Afghanistan

  Fifteen men and two women were found beheaded in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Monday, punishment meted out by Taliban insurgents for a mixed-sex party with music and dancing, officials said.

• Woman, children beheaded in Afghan 'dishonour killing'

  A 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded overnight in Afghanistan's east, police said, in what appeared to be the latest in a rapidly growing trend of so-called honour killings.

• Taliban video shows 17 beheaded Pakistani soldiers

  The Taliban released a video on Wednesday that they say shows the heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan this week and beheaded. The bloody attack showed the threat still posed by the Pakistani Taliban, despite army offensives.