MIRANSHAH: Pro-Taliban militants on Sunday shot dead a suspected Uzbek fighter and captured another in Butkhela village, officials said. The pair was travelling in a car and did not stop at a barrier set up by “local Taliban”, after which they were chased and shot at, a Pakistan intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Local villagers said militants frequently checked vehicles on the road, which links North Waziristan to Bannu. Police in Bannu also confirmed the incident. The killing came despite a peace agreement – signed last year between Islamic militants operating in the region and government forces – which calls for an end to militancy in the tribal district. The deal was aimed at ending nearly three years of violence in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, during which hundreds of people have died in clashes between security forces and rebels. Pakistan’s tribal areas have been rocked by violence since hundreds of Al Qaeda and Taliban militants flooded across the border from Afghanistan after the US led an invasion of the country in late 2001.