Watch: Suicide bomber shares how she was brainwashed to commit violence

Balochistan government held a press conference with Adeela Baloch, a would-be suicide bomber who issued an apology for her actions while talking to the media. She also shed light on her experiences in the mountains with other terrorists.

A government official started off by explaining that the Counter Terrorism Department along with local officials conducted an operation in wake of recent events of terrorism in Balochistan.There, they found out that a woman associated with the department of nursing in the District Headquarters Hospital of Turbat is missing and her family is searching for her. She was later identified as Adeela, daughter of Khuda Bakhsh, who has now been recovered from the mountains.

Adeela started off by explaining that she is from Turbat and got qualified as a nurse from Quetta’s Bolan Medical Hospital. She stated that she was also running a project of WHO-World Health Organization. “Even though my work requires to save lives of people but unfortunately, I was in touch with people who were manipulative,” she lamented as she shared how she was made to believe that suiciding bombing is the only way left to register her demands.

“I did not even think that by doing the suicide bombing I would loose my life but it wouldn’t just be me, there will be a lot many people, dying besides me,” she added.

Adeela made it a point to mention that she left for the mountains without letting her family know anything and realized her “mistake” when she reached up there.

Crying, she described how she was told that her life will be changed for good up in the mountains but the conditions were hard. Many others like her, or even younger, were there after having been manipulated into becoming terrorists.

She asserted, “The current perspective that Baloch women are carrying out suicide attacks out of their own free will is not true, as I am a witness myself that they blackmail women into doing this.”

She thanked the Baloch government for saving her and emphasised that her safety might prompt others to come back on the right track. “Don’t listen to these people as they use you for their own sake,” she said on a parting note.