TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Taliban militants kidnapped, tortured and beheaded an influential tribal elder in northern Takhar province, police said on Saturday.
The elder, Mullah Mansoor, was kidnapped from Chak Ab Qarah Tash village in the fourth police district of Taloqan, the provincial capital, on Friday evening by Taliban gunmen, said police spokesman Col. Khalil Aseer.
He said Mansoor had been severely tortured in captivity before being killed. His headless body was found on Saturday morning and handed over to his . . .
