( CNN ) -- `` Abusive '' Taliban officials , like the one who ordered the stoning of a young man and woman in northern Afghanistan , should n't have positions of authority after a peace deal , a Human Rights Watch official said Thursday . In considering negotiations between the Taliban and coalition and Afghan government officials to end the conflict there , authorities have been amenable to the idea of reconciliation with low-level Taliban , but not all of them -- especially those who 've committed violent acts . The question remains of how much sacrifice should be made for the sake of peace . `` The Afghan government has said there will be negotiations with the Taliban . The U.S. government supports that ultimately because we all know that that 's the only way to end the war , '' Tom Malinowski , the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch , said on CNN 's `` American Morning . '' `` When all is said and done , the question is , think about the stoning case up in Kunduz . Can we live with the deal in which the man who ordered the stoning becomes the mayor of that town ? `` The question is not whether there will be negotiations , but what the terms of the final deal will be . Will we be able to live with allowing these most abusive Taliban commanders to get positions of authority in the country , and I think that 's what needs to be ruled out -- not just because it 's wrong but because I think a deal like that wo n't last , it wo n't be sustainable . We wo n't get peace from a deal like that . '' The Taliban stoned to death a man and a woman in northern Afghanistan for allegedly having an affair , officials said Monday , an execution President Hamid Karzai called `` unforgivable . '' The stoning took place Sunday in Dasht-e-Archi district , in the Taliban-dominated village of Mullah Qali in Kunduz province . The pair was accused of having an illicit sexual relationship , a spokesman for the Kunduz governor said . The woman was about 20 years old and the man was about 27 , said Mohammed Ayoub , district governor of Amam Sahib , which is also in Kunduz province . The woman was engaged , and the man was married to another woman . The two had been held by the Taliban for about a week , Ayoub said . Malinowski there 's been `` a lot more brazen behavior by the Taliban in the parts of the country that they pretty much control , such as executions of people regarded , for example , as collaborators or against women who try to go to school . `` This is the first time they 've actually publicly executed somebody in front of a crowd of people , '' Malinowski said . `` It tells me there are a lot of parts of Afghanistan where the government is just absent . There 's no government there . There 's no U.S. military there . There 's no formal justice system there , and so the Taliban can fill the vacuum -- and when they do , this is what they do . ''
Reconciliation should n't include abusive Taliban , HRW official says . Two were stoned to death in Taliban town . The stoning case raises questions about which Taliban can be dealt with .