"3 Pakistanis stoned, shot to death
By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 7:23 AM ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Two men and a woman were stoned and shot to death in northwestern Pakistan on the orders of a tribal council that found them guilty of adultery, an official said Thursday.
Activists from a radical Islamic group detained the three on Monday in a house in Belod, a village in the Khyber tribal agency near the Afghan border, said Fazel Mehmood, a local government official.
The activists from the Lashkar-Islam group put a woman called Tasleema and two men, identified as Noorullah and Shehzad, before a jirga, or tribal council, on Wednesday, where elders found them guilty of adultery, Mehmood said..."
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2007-03-16
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