KABUL (Pajhwok): The Islamic Emirate on Tuesday rejected as baseless the UN’s concerns about the functioning of courts and enforcement of the Sharia law in Afghanistan.
A day earlier, the UN mission in Afghanistan said 274 men, 58 women and two boys had publicly been lashed over the last six months in the country.
Most of convicts were punished for offences such as extramarital relationships, running away from home, theft, homosexuality, consuming alcohol, fraud and drug trafficking, UNAMA claimed in a report.
It added the UN had documented one instance of judicially sanctioned execution of an alleged killer. He . . .
