Thousands of tribesmen on Saturday vowed to fight US forces as they marked the first death anniversary of Nek Mohammad in a tribal region near Afghanistan. Witnesses said up to 3,000 people, some brandishing assault rifles and some masked, turned up in the remote district of Azam Warsak, in South Waziristan tribal region, to offer prayers at the grave of a former Taleban commander.
Nek Mohammad was killed in June last year after leading a bloody resistance to the Pak army's largest-ever offensive to drive-out al Qaeda linked-militants in South Waziristan.
"We will complete the mission of our commander Nek Mohammad and we will continue our jihad against the US forces in the region," a militant leader Maulvi Abdul Aziz told the gathering amid shouts of "Allah-o-Akbar."
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