Islamabad, December 27: An anti-Taliban tribal elder of the Salarzai tribe has been beheaded and his body dumped by the roadside in Pakistan’s volatile northwest.
Gul Mohammad, 42, was beheaded and his body was found on Saturday morning in Mamund village with a note attached warning that, “Anyone joining the militia against the pro-Taliban would be killed in the same manner,” Faramosh Khan, a local administration official in Khar, the main town in Bajaur, told AFP.
A local security official said that pro-Taliban militants want to scare the local population away from supporting army operations against the militants.
Gul Mohammad was active in raising a village militia to battle pro-Taliban militants in the Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, an official said.
Pakistani security forces launched a huge operation against militants in Bajaur in August. In February, they claimed the area had been cleared but unrest has rumbled on.
——Agencies