A tribal army blew up with mines the house of a local accused of trying to aid an assassination attempt on Taliban leader Mullah Nazir Ahmed in South Waziristan by “a young suicide-bomber” from Bajaur, tribal sources said on Wednesday. Local Taliban militants foiled a plot to assassinate Mullah Nazir in a suicide attack last month, and arrested a young tribesman from Bajaur, who disclosed that he was sent to kill the Taliban leader. “A tribal army razed the house of Farid Zalikhel to the ground by planting mines around it, after a joint Ahmedzai-Wazir-Taliban jirga took the decision,” the sources told Daily Times by phone from Wana, regional headquarters of South Waziristan. Taliban sources said Farid’s fate would be decided by a panel of clerics on Thursday. “The clerics can order a public execution or imprison him, or even let him go,” the sources added. The alleged co-plotter was also fined Rs 1 million. Farid, according to the sources, helped the alleged suicide bomber, who spent nights in his house before the attempted bombing. The alleged suicide bomber, the sources said, told Taliban interrogators that he was sent by Uzbek militant Saiful Asad to kill Mullah Nazir. Separately, the panel of clerics pardoned pro-Uzbek militant commander Iftikhar along with 15 accomplices, since he was not found involved in murders or any other crime.