MIRAMSHAH Taliban militants shot dead a tribesman in a restive Pakistani area bordering Afghanistan, accusing him of spying for the United States, officials said Friday.

The body of the 30-year-old man was dumped on a roadside on Friday in the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, they said.

A note found on the victims body warned that anyone found spying against mujahedeen will face the same fate, a security official said.

Local officials said the mans body had been handed over to his family for burial.

Northwest Pakistan has been wracked by violence since hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants fled there after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.

Militants have killed several people whom they accuse of spying for the Pakistani army and the US-led forces operating across the border in Afghanistan.