Taliban kill two 'US spies' in Pakistan: officials

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Source: AFP

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) — Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal area on Friday killed two men they accused of spying for US forces stationed across the border in Afghanistan, officials said.

The bullet-riddled bodies of Afghan refugee Sher Khan and Pakistani tribal elder Nazar Jan were found early Friday at separate places in the North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, officials in those areas said.

"Notes found with the bodies said the men were killed for spying for the US," tribal police official Rukh Niaz Khan told AFP.

Islamist militants frequently kidnap and kill local tribesmen or Afghan refugees on charges of spying for the Pakistani government or US forces, who are battling a Taliban-led insurgency across the border in Afghanistan.



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