Pak woman student was to be used as suicide bomber

A 20-YEAR-OLD medical student, who visited Syria in February to join ISIS and receive weapons training, has said that she was to be used as a suicide bomber to attack a church on Easter in Pakistan’s Lahore city.

Naureen Leghari, a secondyear student of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences in Jamshoro, Sindh, said she left her house to go to Lahore on her own.

She made the revelations in video confession played during a press conference by Pakistan’s Military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor here.

The woman said they were given two suicide jackets, four grenade and some bullets by ISIS to carry out the mission.

However, their mission was foiled by the security forces who killed one militant and arrested two others, including the woman, on Friday night.

The woman had visited Syria to join the ISIS terror group in February, the Dawn reported, citing sources.

Naureen came to Lahore about three weeks ago and was being tracked by security personnel. She had reportedly been contacted by militants through social media, the paper said.

Her husband Ali Tariq of Lahore, whom she had married after leaving her home and joining the militants, was killed in the encounter in the Punjab Housing Society on Friday night. Four security personnel were injured in the shootout. Security personnel found her college card and her father’s computerised national identity card from their hideout and reportedly contacted her family in Hyderabad.

The University Vice Chancellor Naushad Sheikh said the woman was in prolonged contact with a man on social media who radicalised her. “Her contact with the boy transformed her mindset and influenced her towards extremism,” he added.

He said that Naureen was a “reserved girl” who used to “pray five times a day” and added that two of her friends were Hindus.