By NNN-AfghanNews,
Islamabad : Four militants captured in a brazen weekend raid on a military base in Pakistan’s northwest came from across the border in Afghanistan, the military said Monday.
The paramilitary camp was attacked early Sunday by about 600 militants, most believed to be from Afghanistan, sparking a major clash that left six security troops and 49 insurgents dead.
The Pakistani Frontier Corps said in a statement Monday that four militants captured in the battle came from Afghanistan’s Kunar province, directly across the border.
Also Monday, the bodies of two men killed by Taliban militants for allegedly spying for the United States were found in the North Waziristan tribal region to the south of Mohmand.
The men, brothers aged 25 and 30, were found shot to death early Monday with notes pinned to their bodies accusing them of passing on information in exchange for money, tribal police official Abdul Qayyum Khan said.
The deaths bring to 13 the number of people executed as suspected U.S. spies since Dec. 21, according to Khan.
Meanwhile, tribesmen continued to block the southwestern supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan at Chaman to protest the killing of one of their members in a raid by Pakistan’s anti-narcotics force.
Trucks and other vehicles were blocking the main Quetta-Chaman highway, forcing about 100 trucks carrying NATO supplies to park, according to the region’s deputy police superintendent, Mohammad Qasim.
Most NATO supplies travel through the famed Khyber Pass to the north, where they have been attacked by Taliban militants, although a smaller number get to Afghanistan by a second land crossing at Chaman.