KHAR – Security forces on Wednesday arrested a woman allegedly planning to blow herself up in a lawless tribal region where 43 people were killed two months ago in a female suicide attack, officials said. “Security forces and local administration officials raided a house near Khar on Wednesday morning and arrested a woman wearing a suicide vest,” senior local official Sohail Khan told AFP.
He said the raid was ordered on a tip-off that women were being trained as suicide bombers in the residential area of Siddiqabad near Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district. He said five other people were also arrested, including two other women from the same house. “All six people are being interrogated,” he added, giving no details. Two local intelligence officials confirmed the raid and arrests.
In Pakistan’s first known female suicide attack, a woman wearing a bomb under her burqa struck near a UN food distribution point on December 25.
