‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume

Nooruddin Turabi, in charge of Afghan prisons, says executions and removal of hands will restart, but possibly not in public

The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.

According to a senior official - a veteran leader of the hardline Islamist group who was in charge of justice during its previous period in power - executions would not necessarily take place in public as they did before.