Pakistan frets over femme fatales

Source. Asia times on line

ISLAMABAD – The tactic of the Pakistan Taliban to use veil-clad female suicide bombers to effectively strike their targets without being intercepted has set alarm bells ringing for the security agencies which are already finding it hard to nip al-Qaeda and Taliban-sponsored terrorism in the bud.

A female suicide attacker and a separate handcart bomb targeted the Pakistani police on August 11 in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing seven people in the first deadly suicide attack during the holy month of Ramadan.

 
Pakistan frets over femme fatalesThe Pakistan Taliban’s third attack by a female suicide bomber in less than a year is raising fears as the new tactic to conceal deadly explosives under all-enveloping burqas presents a huge challenge for Pakistan’s security agencies. The Taliban, training women’s cells on both sides of the AfPak border, threaten to unleash more carnage

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