Suspected Taliban militants killed an Afghan national and a settled district resident for being “US spies” in North Waziristan, as a military convoy escaped two improvised-explosive device attacks, officials said on Wednesday. Wazir Badshah hailed from Hangu district and the Afghan was a resident of Khost province in Afghanistan, who went missing some four months ago. A letter found near the two bodies close to a military check-post east of Miranshah charged the two executed men with “spying for the United States,” the officials told Daily Times. The militants slit the throat of Badshah, in his 30s, on Monday night and left the body on a road near Mir Ali town, a stronghold of foreign militants in North Waziristan. “He (Wazir) was a hypocrite and American spy. Such people deserve such treatment,” the letter read.
In the same area, the authorities also found the body of refugee Maulvi Shamsuddin, 45, who was kidnapped by militants three months ago on accusations of spying, the officials added. Meanwhile, a military convoy coming from Bannu and going to Miranshah escaped two IED explosions near Mir Ali town.