The woman in her thirties, enveloped in a burqa, was the only casualty. The last suicide attack by a woman was in December 2007 she blew up herself at a checkpoint in the heart of Peshawar. At the time, the police record showed her family had travelled across the country, residing in Karachi, Lahore and refugee camps in Peshawar. Gul’s words proved to be true when a burqa-clad suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing some 47 people and injuring over a hundred, 11 months later. “She cannot be taken seriously,” added another. “Has the child lost her mind?” He exclaimed. I was too scared,” Gul confessed.Ī police officer burst into laughter on that cold winter morning at the DPO’s office in Lower Dir at the incredible disclosure. “My younger sister blew herself up in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Zainab battled Pakistani forces dressed as a man. She escorted eight women from our village to Afghanistan,” Gul told The Express Tribune. “My sister-in-law, Zainab, was responsible for their training. Her story, distressful in itself, was overshadowed by an ominous revelation of a women’s wing of the Taliban across the border to carry out suicide attacks. Meena Gul managed to escape from the clutches of the Taliban in Charmang when militants’ hideouts were reduced to ashes in the bombardment. The twelve-year-old girl was apprehended by security personnel from the Munda area on the boundary of Dir district and Bajaur Agency in January. “You will go to heaven before any of us, if you blow up yourself the way I tell you,” Meena Gul recounted the persuasive promise of her brother, a Taliban commander.
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