Suspected Taliban militants Sunday killed two Afghan men in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan accusing them of spying for the U.S. forces operating across the border, media reports said.
The reports said five masked men brought the Afghan nationals, Zar Muhammad and Nek Muhammad, brothers from the neighboring Afghan province of Khost, and shot them dead in the Pakistani area Sunday. Bodies of the duo were found near a canal in the Spin Wam area of Shiratala village in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district.
A note in Pashto language, found near the bodies, said they were spying for the U.S. on local Taliban and warned that anyone spying for the U.S. or Afghanistan would face the same fate.
The executions were the latest in a string of similar killings in the rugged frontier region, a haven for Al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents bent on destabilizing both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Taliban in Pakistan recently released a video of five persons, who said they were spying on Al-Qaida operatives on the "instructions of the army". But the Pakistani army spokesman has denied the claim and said Islamabad was not helping the U.S. in the missile strike and considers such attacks counter-productive.
Local Taliban say that espionage has led to U.S. drones regularly firing missiles on hideouts of suspected militants in Waziristan tribal regions. The U.S. has reportedly carried out around 35 missile attacks in the tribal regions since August.
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