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KABUL — Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery, which a rights group said was the first confirmed use of the punishment here since the hard-line Islamist regime was ousted in 2001.
The stoning appeared to arise from an affair between a married man and a single woman in Kunduz province’s Dasht-e-Archi district.
The two had holed up in a friend’s house five days ago, said district government head, Mohammad Ayub Aqyar.
They were discovered by Taliban operatives Sunday and stoned to death in front of a crowd of about 150 men, Aqyar said. The Associated Press
