Taliban militants have cut off the ink-stained fingers of 11 Afghan men as a punishment for disobeying their order not to vote in the election for the crucial presidential run-off that saw a higher than expected turnout of 52 per cent.

Afghan men, who had their fingers cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting

ZEE News  “The insurgents who were defeated today cut off inked fingers of 11 voters in #Herat. The injured ppl transported to the hospital,” Afghanistan’s Deputy Interior Minister Ayoub Salangi tweeted. The gruesome incident took place yesterday in Herat Province after the 11 men, mostly elders, who returned after casting their ballot in the run-off to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who has been in office since 2001. (BNI)

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