MIRAMSHAH, Jan 5: Militants in North Waziristan killed three people on Monday after accusing them of spying for US forces in Afghanistan.

Two of them, Qasim Khan and Omar Saddiq, were said to be Afghan nationals and the third, Azizur Rehman, was from Bannu. They were hanged from a tree in Nowrek area.

Sources said Azizur Rehman was a government contractor and he had been kidnapped from Miramshah bazaar a few days ago.

A note left with one of the bodies said they had been ‘punished’ for spying for the Americans. Residents were asked not to remove the bodies till 5pm.

The sources said that armed men riding a car with tinted glasses kidnapped a man from Miramshah on Monday.

Meanwhile, local Taliban headed by Hafiz Gul Bahadur have enforced what they call a ban on co-education in North Waziristan and on women acquiring the national identity card.

Pamphlets distributed in Miramshah and other areas warned tribesmen not to send their children to co-education schools. The pamphlets said that if the ‘order’ was not followed the entire family would be eliminated.