MIRAMSHAH, June 30: A man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, on Friday.

Thirty-year-old Ihsanullah was brought blindfolded to the execution ground by heirs of the two murdered men.

Two men representing the bereaved families were given Kalashnikovs, each loaded with three bullets, as a local militant read out a brief statement warning others to draw a lesson from the execution.

Ihsanullah was asked to offer prayers. The execution was watched by over a hundred villagers, including children.

This is the first execution under the Taliban-style dispensation of justice in the agency. The execution took place a few days after militants announced a one-month ceasefire, pledging to refrain from attacking security forces and government installations.

Ihsanullah was accused of killing Akhtar Zaman and Inamullah following a dispute on June 22. He was captured by militants soon after the incident.

The militants had asked the bereaved families either to pardon the accused or avenge the murders in accordance with the Islamic principle of an eye for an eye, locals said.

The families refused to pardon and chose badal, a Pashto term for revenge, they said.

Under Islamic law, a victim’s relative can pardon his murderer after accepting blood money or without it.