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Militiamen behead 4 Daesh militants in eastern Afghanistan

Sunday, 27 December 2015 10:26 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 December 2015 10:27 PM ]

Anti-Daesh militiamen keep watch during clashes with Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Achin district of the eastern province of Nangarhar in Afghanistan, on December 27, 2015. (AFP)

Local militiamen have decapitated four members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the restive province of Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan.

The militia group, known as Pasoon or “Uprising”, then placed their severed heads atop stacks of stones on the side of a main road in Achin district, where they had captured the Takfiris hours earlier on Saturday, Reuters reported on Sunday.

The militiamen are loyal to the Deputy Speaker of Afghan Parliament Haji Abdul Zahir Qadir and have been battling both Daesh and Taliban militants for the past weeks.

According to Qadir, the Daesh militants had earlier beheaded at least four of the group fighters, prompting them to retaliate.

“If they behead you, behead your son, do you expect us to cook sweets for them? Sweets are not distributed during war. People die,” Zahir Qadir told reporters.

But the governor of Achin, Haji Ghalib Mujahid, opposed the idea, calling the incident “barbaric.”

“If they were criminals then they should have been punished by the judiciary, not by a kangaroo court,” Mujahid said in comments cited by the local media.

The spokesman for the provincial governor, Ataullah Khoqani, also confirmed that the Afghan government forces were not involved in the killing, adding that the incident is under investigation.

Some districts in Afghanistan, including the volatile Nangarhar, have been witnessing a rise in the number of Daesh terrorists in recent months as the terror group, which is mainly operating in Iraq and Syria, is making inroads into Afghanistan with the number of its followers growing across the country.

On June 16, the Taliban militant group warned the so-called leader of Daesh, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”

Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity 14 years after the United States and its allies attacked the country as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. Although the 2001 attack overthrew the Taliban, many areas across Afghanistan still face violence and insecurity.

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