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Waziristan ‘deal’ broken: Taliban kill 70-year old ‘American spy’

Staff Report

MIRANSHAH: A 70-year-old tribesman has been shot dead by suspected militants for allegedly spying for the Americans, a local administration official said on Saturday.

This is the first target killing in North Waziristan since the government and militants struck a peace deal on Tuesday. Under the deal, local militants or Taliban had agreed to stop target killings in the tribal area.

A paramilitary patrol found Rahim Jan’s bullet-ridden body with two letters on it near a tableeghi market west of Miranshah, the official said. One letters said Jan had “confessed to spying for the Americans”, while the other was on his personal contacts. Both letters had been written in Urdu.

Meanwhile, NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai met a 45-member jirga in Peshawar to “reward” jirga members for their services in brokering the peace deal.

South Waziristan Senator Syed Saleh Shah told Daily Times that the governor paid each jirga member Rs 100,000 and a certificate as “reward for their contribution to a successful jirga”. A spokesman for Governor’s FATA Secretariat denied that jirga members were given a cash reward. “They have been given certificates only,” he said.

A tribal elder said that cash reward for a successful jirga was a tradition.

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