PESHAWAR: The militants shot Khatibullah to death on Tuesday in their own judicial procedure in North Waziristan, after labeling him as American spy, the tribal sources said.
Khatibullah, a 25 year-old from Mosaki village in North Waziristan, was kidnapped from the market two weeks ago by some unidentified armed men.
A newly emerged militant group named as the Jaish-e-Khurassan or Ittehad-e-Khurassan killed Khatibullah on the charges of spying for the American forces.
“The kidnappers of Khatibullah were wearing dresses with inscription, ‘Ittehad-e-Khurassan” said the sources who quoted eyewitnesses. A local militant commander who has links with the khurassan group said that they had picked up and later killed Sajjad, a CIA spy, who admitted before the Shura (Taliban Clerics’ Council) that he was an active member of a US funded spys’ local network.
“He (Sajjad) disclosed Khatibullah as part of the said spy network a year ago. Our people waited for a long time to punish him and we have proofs of his involvement in spying for the Americans,” he claimed. But Khatibullah’s family rejected the claims of the group, saying that Khatib had already informed them of a possible attempt on his life by the militants.
“I am clean and have nothing to do with the spy network. I never even thought of spying on Taliban or other fighters here,” he was quoted as informing his family before he was kidnapped. The local traders and tribesmen had taken out a protest demonstration against the rise in the kidnapping incidents of local people.
The protest against the militants was the first ever such incident in the tribal region, especially in the North Waziristan.
