US EditionPakistan police detain teen girl radicalized online in suspected suicide bombing plot
The girl was recruited online by the Baloch Liberation Army and will be protected as a victim after police stopped her en route to meet a militant handler, officials said.
- On Monday, police detained a teenage girl radicalized online by the Baloch Liberation Army during a routine bus check en route to Karachi from southwestern Balochistan to meet a handler.
- Authorities say the long-running Baloch insurgency has seen the outlawed separatist group increase female attackers, including a 2022 bomber who killed three Chinese teachers.
- The girl recorded a video statement revealing months of contact with Baloch Liberation Army militants on Facebook and Instagram and appeared at a news conference with her mother with her face covered.
- At a news conference, Sindh provincial Home Minister Ziaul Hassan said no criminal charges will be filed and the girl will receive state protection as a victim, while Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said police prevented a large loss of life.
- Amid a trend of online recruitment, the Baloch Liberation Army convinced the girl an attack would bring honour within the Baloch community, a tactic authorities say the BLA uses online.
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Pakistan police detain teen girl radicalized online in suspected suicide bombing plot
Pakistan police have detained a teenage girl they say was radicalized and recruited online by an outlawed separatist group to carry out a suicide attack.
Pakistan police arrested a teenage girl who was recruited online by the Balochistan Liberation Army (ELB), a separatist group banned as a terrorist by the United States, to carry out a “significant suicide attack.” Authorities announced that she will not face criminal charges and will be placed under state protection as “a [...] The post Arrest of teenage girls recruited for suicide attack in Pakistan appeared first on Oronoticias.
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