KABUL, Afghanistan
A militant group of “masked men” has hung 11 Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan for supposedly failing to fulfil their duties, officials said Friday.
Video footage released to Afghan media showed the masked executioners, who reportedly belong to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, hanging the Taliban commanders.
“They are supported by a foreign intelligence agency that wants to disrupt the presidential election and destabilize the region,” Hafiz Abdul Qayum, the governor of the eastern Nuristan province, told Anadolu Agency.
He said the group has increased in size to 150 gunmen in the Kamdish district of Nuristan and, according to local officials, its fighters do not speak any of the main Afghan languages.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused Lashkar-e-Taiba for an attack on India's consulate in western province Herat on May 23.
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