Pakistani Taliban shaved the heads of seven alleged criminals, blackened their faces and paraded them in a bazaar on Wednesday in Miranshah, witnesses said. According to witnesses, a heavily armed Taliban contingent, consisting mainly of students from local madrassas, arrested the alleged criminals on Tuesday from Mir Ali town as part of their campaign to curb crime. “The Taliban captured men they said were involved in robberies and snatching vehicles,” a local official said. The militants drove the men to a market in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan. “They shaved their heads and paraded them around with their faces painted black,” witness Sharif Khan said. After parading the alleged criminals in the market for half an hour the Taliban took them to their office to try them under Islamic law, witnesses added. Pakistan, a key US ally in the US-led ‘war on terror,’ signed a controversial peace deal with Taliban and tribal elders in North Waziristan in September.