Militants have occupied a shrine in a tribal district of Pakistan and named it after the Red Mosque in Islamabad, locals and officials say.

More than 70 pro-Taleban militants evicted local officials from the Haji Sahib Turangzai shrine near the Afghan border in the countrys north-west. Eyewitnesses said a signboard reading Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) was put up outside the Haji Sahib