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How this female ‘suicide bomber’ was apprehended in Pakistan
The woman confesses that she was brainwashed by the banned BLF outfit
Published: April 13, 2023 19:40
Ashfaq Ahmed, Senior Assistant Editor
Gulf News
Mahal Baloch, who was trained as a suicide bomber' says she was lured and brainwashed
by a banned militant group in Balochistan
Image Credit: Supplied
Dubai: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Pakistan has released a report on how a woman was turned into a potential suicide bomber after being brainwashed by a proscribed outfit Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF).
The CTD with the help of intelligence agencies in Pakistan have arrested a woman who was believed to be potential suicide bomber and also recovered a ‘suicide jacket’ from her in Quetta.
The woman, who belonged to BLF, was apprehended in February while she was carrying a bag with a suicide jacket loaded with five kilos of explosives.
A CTD spokesperson said that the ‘suicide bomber’ was planning to attack important installations or security forces in Quetta, but her bid was foiled.
Brainwashing women and children
According to the report released on Wednesday, the intelligence-based operation was carried out after the CTD Balochistan and intelligence agencies had received information that banned terrorist organisations were luring women and children for their nefarious designs. For this purpose, they were not only being brainwashed but also being financially and organisationally supported.
The report further added: “On the basis of this information, on February 17, a woman named Mahal Baloch was arrested with a suicide jacket.
Banned terrorist group
During investigations, she revealed that her husband Bibgar was affiliated to the banned terrorist organisation BLF and was killed along with his brother Baloch Khan in 2016. Later, she, along with her father-in-law and mother-in-law moved to Karachi.
During her stay in Karachi, she was contacted by the BLA operatives who lured her to join the organisation and brainwashed her over her husband’s association with the organisation.
Luring women
Mahal Baloch joined the organisation and moved to Quetta where she was given the task to lure other women and bring them to participate in various protest rallies against the government. The organisation continued to send funds to her family to bear daily living expenses. Mahal Baloch further revealed in a video confession that her cousin Wasim and her in-laws are also part of BLF.
Mahal said that a suicide jacket was given to her by BLF Commander Sharbat Khan only a week before her arrest and she had kept the jacket hidden in her house. Sharbat Khan had told her that this jacket would soon be used for an important attack in Quetta. However, timely action by the CTD foiled her plan to carry out any terrorist activity.
Italy: Muslim migrant stabs his wife and mother-in-law to death
He stabs his wife and mother-in-law to death, arrested:
his 16-year-old son called the police
translated from “Uccide a coltellate la moglie e la suocera, arrestato: il figlio 16enne ha chiamato la Polizia,”
L’Unione Sarda, April 13, 2023.
Double homicide in the night in Arezzo, where a 50-year-old man stabbed his wife and mother-in-law to death.
The tragedy occurred in the apartment in via Benedetto Varchi where the couple lived with two children, a 16-year-old and a little girl.
The older of the two women died immediately, the other in the hospital where she had been taken in critical condition. The man, of North African origin, was arrested by the police.
At the time of the brutal attack, the two children were also in the house, it was the eldest who called the police. The prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Marco Dioni, also arrived on the spot, together with the head of the mobile team Sergio Leo.
The killer has already been questioned: according to an initial reconstruction, the man grabbed a kitchen knife and lashed out at the two women, both from Arezzo. At the basis of the double murder a quarrel that degenerated into tragedy or a fit of madness.
After the attack, the 50-year-old fled down the stairs, then took refuge in an external square while his 16-year-old son called the police. The officers, who arrived on the spot, blocked the man who, in an evident state of confusion, immediately confessed.
According to the first rumors, it seems that the climate in the house had been tense for some time: the mother of the 50-year-old’s wife would often come to sleep with her daughter to protect her.
APR 14, 2023 1:00 PM
COMMENTS BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
There is domestic violence in all cultures. So to post this is just “Islamophobic,” right? Wrong: there is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. Islam doesn’t teach that man may kill his wife, but once you’ve allowed him to beat her, accidents will happen.
The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
An another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825
Executions in Iran increased 75% as anti-government protests surged
Government seeks to sow public fear to maintain grip on power, report says
By A.L. Lee
Tehran's hardline government has increased executions in an effort to discourage protests that have
exploded across the country over the past year following the police-custody death of 22-year-old
Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab. File photo by EPA-EFE
April 14 (UPI) -- Iran's hardline government executed at least 582 people last year in an effort to sow public fear as anti-government protests surged across the country, according to a new human rights report.
The number of Iranians executed in 2022 was the highest since 2015 and marked a 75% increase over the previous year when 333 were put to death, according to the annual report on the Death Penalty in the Islamic Republic -- compiled by Iran Human Rights and a French-based anti-death penalty group known as ECPM.
The government was deliberately using the executions to set an example that was intended to "instill societal fear in order to hold onto power," the report alleges.
Protests have gripped the country for months following the September police-custody death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab.
The resulting crackdown has netted more than 100 additional protest defendants who face death penalty trials in the coming months.
Another 20 protesters have already been sentenced to death in preliminary trials but were still awaiting their fate, the report says.
The report identified 15 executions had been carried out for nebulous charges related to national security, like "enmity against God" and "corruption on Earth." At least four protesters were among this group, including Mohsen Shekari, who in December became the first demonstrator to be publicly hanged.
The theocratic government has faced increasing pressure from world leaders over the recent executions of political prisoners, which has led to a wave of government-sanctioned deaths for other capital crimes, the report said.
"The international reactions to the death sentences against protesters have made it difficult for the Islamic Republic to proceed with their executions," said Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam. "To compensate, and in order to spread fear among people, the authorities have intensified the execution for non-political charges."
Mahmood continued to call on the global community to help stop "the Islamic Republic's execution machine" by taking a stronger stance against Tehran.
The report alleges that nearly 90% of executions for crimes like murder, rape and drug trafficking had been carried out without any public knowledge, while just 71 executions, or 12%, were announced by the government.
The report also noted that 16 women were executed throughout 2022 and that three juvenile offenders were also put to death in that time.
In total, more than 4,000 executions have been carried out in the country since 2010 under orders of the Revolutionary Courts, the report says.
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