Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti on Wednesday said security agencies arrested a “would-be” female suicide bomber in Khuzdar, with the use of “human intelligence”.
Addressing a press conference in Quetta, alongside the alleged “would-be” suicide bomber, the chief minister said that terrorist groups in Balochistan were “exploiting” Baloch women.
The young woman — identified as Laiba — narrating her ordeal, said she was “brain-washed” into becoming a suicide bomber by a Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TPP) commander, whom she met last year.
She recalled that she was told to “train more women to become a ‘fidayee’”, and was on her way to meet a commander who would have briefed her on a potential suicide mission before she was arrested in Khuzdar.
CM Bugti maintained that the operation to arrest Laiba was carried out with the help of “human intelligence”, thanking the people for cooperating with security agencies. He added that with her arrest, major destruction had been averted.
He found it unfortunate that a “young woman was radicalised and was being planned to be used against common citizens”.
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