Adeela Khudabaksh Baloch, a suspect allegedly involved in a suicide bombing plot, has revealed that Baloch women are often blackmailed and manipulated into such actions by terrorist groups.
Speaking at a press conference in Quetta, alongside Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind and MPA Farah Azeem Shah, she detailed how she was misled into joining these groups with false promises.
According to Rind, Adeela’s father had contacted the Turbat district administration on the night of September 16, reporting that his daughter was missing. “Given the seriousness of past incidents, this case was handled as a high-priority matter,” Rind emphasized.
It was soon discovered that Adeela, who worked as a nurse at Turbat District Headquarters Hospital, had gone missing. Rind noted that the government, along with law enforcement agencies, prioritized her safe recovery, with full cooperation from her family.
Adeela, a qualified nurse working on a World Health Organisation project, shared how she had been deceived by extremist elements.
“My role was to help and save lives, but unfortunately, I was led astray,” she said. She confessed that she had been persuaded to carry out a suicide bombing, unaware of the innocent lives at stake. “They gave me false hopes of a better, happier life,” she explained, adding that life in the mountains with the terrorists was filled with hardship.
She also revealed that she was not the only one to have been manipulated. “Other Baloch youth, both men and women, have been similarly brainwashed,” she noted.
Adeela clarified that the notion of Baloch women willingly becoming suicide bombers is false. “It’s all lies. Terrorists blackmail women into this. I am living proof,” she concluded.
