The anti-Taleban alliance in Afghanistan says it has executed six people found guilty of killing a leading opposition commander earlier this week.

A spokesman for the opposition commander, Ahmad Shah Masood, said the executions were carried out after a court hearing in the opposition stronghold of Panjshir.

The spokesman said that the six had been caught red-handed and had admitted the murder.

He said the assailants had a personal grudge against the victim, Abdullah Jan Wahidi.

He had been shot dead when his car was ambushed last Monday while he was on the way to the Panjshir valley.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service