PESHAWAR, March 27: The local Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal region sentenced a man to death for murdering a taxi- driver and the execution was carried out by the cabby’s father.

According to sources close to militants in the area, a Taliban Shoora found Hayatullah guilty of killing the taxi-driver, Bilal, and pronounced the death sentence under Shariat law.

The execution was carried out in Tiarza, dominated by the Mehsud tribe, on Sunday evening in the presence of Taliban leaders. In a grim reminder of dispensation of justice under the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Bilal’s father was given a Kalashnikov and he fired a volley of bullets to avenge the death of his son.

Hayatullah was buried on Monday, the sources said.

This is the first execution carried out in the area which is under effective control of militants locally called Taliban.

The sources said that a group of Taliban activists had investigated the murder of Bilal whose body had been found in a ravine near Wana about two weeks ago.