The Taliban insurgents have stoned a woman to death but left the man after whipping him over adultery in northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. (Photo: File Photo)

March 9, 2017 – According to the local officials, the incident took place in the remote and restive district of Wardoj.

The district administrative chief Dawlat Mohammad Khawar confirmed the incident and said the woman was stoned to death after she faced a trial openly along with the man from the Taliban insurgents.

This is not the first time the Taliban insurgents have public tried and executed women over adultery and other charges in Badakhshan.

According to the statistics provided by the local officials, the group has executed at least five women over various charges in the past two years in this province.

The Taliban insurgents executed at least two women including a pregnant woman and a girl in this province last month.

One of the victims was shot dead by the insurgents after she rejected a marriage proposal from one of their commanders while the other woman was killed after she had left the house of her in laws.

Badakshan is among the relatively volatile provinces in northeastern Afghanistan which has witnessed growing violence, mainly due to Taliban-led insurgency during the recent years.

Taliban stones woman to death, whips man over adultery in Badakhshan

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Afghanistan – Taliban Stone Woman to Death for Alleged Adultery in NE Province

March 10, 2017 – The Taliban stoned a women to death and whipped a man on charges of adultery in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Thursday.

The incident happened in Wardooj district on Wednesday, Zufnoon Natiq, head of the women’s affairs department in Badakhshan, said.

There were few details as the district is under the control of the Taliban. However, Natiq said that this was already the eighth case of a woman killed by the Taliban in the past 12 months for alleged” moral crimes”.

Almost a month ago, Taliban militants shot and killed two women in Badakhshan on allegations of adultery.

Similar cases have been increasingly reported from across the country.

In January, Taliban militants publicly flogged six people in central Afghanistan on allegations of robbery and adultery. (DPA)

“This is a big concern for us,” Hussain Moin, a monitoring and investigation coordinator at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), told dpa~at the time.

The government is often unable to investigate such extrajudicial punishments as they take place in insecure areas, Moin said.