MIRANSHAH: Suspected pro-Taliban militants killed a cleric in a tribal area on the border with South Waziristan, accusing him of spying for US forces operating in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Monday. Authorities found the bullet-riddled body of Maulana Gul Thaheem, 47, in a ravine in Makeen village, a security official told AFP. A note found on the body said Thaheem “spied for Americans and he was a friend of Maulana Salah-ud-Din, and Maulana Hashim Khan”, two clerics shot dead previously, accused of spying, the official said. Suspected militants have killed several tribesmen in the past few months, accusing them of spying for the US-led coalition forces across the border.