Taliban kill US ‘spies’ MIRANSHAH: Taliban militants shot dead seven men in Pakistan’s restive northwest tribal belt after accusing them of spying for the United States, officials said on Sunday. The bullet-ridden bodies of five men were found on Sunday dumped by the side of a road in Kamsarobi village, 30 kilometres south of Miranshah, the main town in the semi-autonomous North Waziristan tribal region. “Taliban killed five men overnight, accusing them of spying for Americans to help them launch drone attacks,” local police official Mehboob Shah told AFP. “A note found on the body said that the victims were spying on Taliban and anyone doing the same would be killed in this manner,” he added. The body of a sixth man was found in Qutabkhel village, five kilometres south of Miranshah, with a similar note from the Taliban. Another body of a man with a warning note from the Taliban was found near the town of Mir Ali, 30-km from Miranshah. Girls’ school blown up PESHAWAR: The Taliban blew up a girls’ school on Sunday in northwest Pakistan, where troops are battling a militant insurgency, police said. Islamist militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years as they wage a fierce insurgency to enforce sharia law. The nine-room private girls’ high school in the town of Shabqadar, some 30 kilometres north of Peshawar, was destroyed when two bombs planted by militants exploded, senior police official Mohammad Riaz Khan said. “The bombs were planted in two rooms and the blast has left the entire building unusable,” Khan said.