Source: AFP

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Islamist militants killed a tribesman after accusing him of working as a US spy in a lawless stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents bordering Afghanistan, officials said Friday.

Rebels shot and then slit the throat of the 30-year-old man in the latest in a series of executions in Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas targeting people allegedly working for US and NATO forces across the border.

His body was dumped on a road in Sham, a town between the North and South Waziristan tribal regions, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

“They left a note claiming that he was a US spy and warning that anyone working for the US will suffer the same fate,” one official said.

Pakistan has been combating hundreds of Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who fled over the border from Afghanistan after the US-led invasion in late 2001 that followed the September 11 attacks on the United States.

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