Pakistani Killed for Alleged U.S. Spying
Associated Press 11.19.06, 5:07 AM ET
Militants beheaded an Islamic school teacher, accusing him of spying for the U.S. in a northwestern Pakistani tribal region, a government official said Sunday.
Maulana Hashim Khan's decapitated body was found early Sunday by local people near a road in al-Fatah Kot village in North Waziristan, said Zafar Ali Shah, a government administrator based in the area.
Khan, 45, had been missing for the past eight days from his school in Shawal, a mountain valley west of Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan. A note left with his body said that he and Maulana Salahuddin, a cleric assassinated last month, operated as spies for America, Shah said.
"For this reason, we punished him under Islamic laws," Shah quoted the note as saying.
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