[SIASAT] A local Afghanistan court has sentenced guerilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
’s brother Anas Haqqani to death, according to reports.
A section of media quoted Baseer Aziz, spokesperson for the office of attorney general, saying that a primary court awarded death sentence to Anas, who was captured by United States security officials after he visited Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
in October, 2014, along with another leader Hafiz Rashid. Baseer refused to comment on when and where the verdict was handed down.
The Taliban had earlier confirmed Anas and Rashid’s detention, adding that the two had travelled to Qatar to meet Taliban leaders released from Guantanamo. The US later handed over Anas and another senior Taliban capo to Afghan authorities.
The Afghan government claimed Anas had been locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in eastern Afghanistan.
Working under the defence ministry, an Afghan army website ArmyAFG, also confirmed the reports. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid is yet to comment.
According to Afghan legal experts, local court convicts have the right to appeal in high court, as well as the supreme court. Afghan officials earlier claimed that Anas was taking care of fundraising for the Haqqani network
; however, the Taliban, while denying the claim said Anas was a student, who held no position in the organization.The Taliban had also accused US of violating an understanding reached during the exchange of prisoners, which allowed relatives to visit freed Guantanamo inmates.
The verdict came a few months after the Afghan government hanged six Taliban prisoners in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
. The Taliban later launched a series of target attacks on judges, killing some judges and court officials.