In Afghanistan, human rights groups are condemning the country for carrying out the first state execution since the fall of the Taliban more than two years ago. It emerged today that a former military commander was shot in the head at a jail outside Kabul last week after he was convicted of murder. Amnesty International says the man [[[ Abdullah Shah ]]] was denied basic standards of fairness. The group said it feared the once-powerful commander might have been executed out to remove a key witness to human rights abuses carried out by several commanders now in power. Amnesty has urged Afghanistan to ban judicial executions.