New Delhi
The Tuesday blast in the University of Karachi in which three Chinese were killed, is being attributed to a Baloch suicide bomber woman, who was a teacher, mother of two young children, was married to a doctor, and hailed from an educated and well-off family.
Though police were clueless about the identity of the burqa-clad woman who was seen in the CCTV footage as waiting on the roadside as the van carrying the Chinese officials came close and the explosion, the Baloch Liberation Army, an outlawed group, has identified her as Shari Baloch.
This attack gives a new dimension to the rage of Baloch rebel groups who want freedom from Pakistan as Islamabad is exploiting its resources and has recently inducted the Chinese in Gawadar to add to the loot of the region.
A suicide attack on a van near the Chinese Institute at Karachi University on Tuesday afternoon killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, and injured four others, including a Ranger.
Balochistan was an independent country till Pakistan annexed it by subterfuge with Mohammad Ali Jinnah making the ruler sign the instrument of accession.
Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) said the suicide bomber was a member of its Majeed Brigade. It also released her photographs with her two children on Twitter.
A relative of Shari Baloch told local newspapers, “Shari was about 30 years old. she did her M.Ed from Allama Iqbal Open University in 2014 after her Master's degree in Zoology from Balochistan University Quetta in 2015.
She got a government job in the education department of Balochistan and she was teaching in Government school in Kalatak Union Council, about 20 km from Turbat, Balochistan.
"Shari Baloch was a mother of two children, including a son and a daughter," he said. According to a relative of Sahri Baloch she took such a step to take revenge but no one in her family had gone missing till today, she was ideologically committed to her organization, so maybe she took such a step.
"Everyone in the family is literate and part of the bureaucracy," her relative said.
A tweet went viral after the Karachi University blast, in which a user named Shari Baloch wrote: "She is leaving, but this company will continue."
Mohammad Amir Rana, an analyst on terrorism and militancy issues, believes that the recent attack on the Chinese people will increase the pressure on Pakistan and its government. "Recent events are challenging," said Rana.
As the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor enters a new phase, such an attack will have extremely negative effects. "It's a terrible thing," she said when asked about a woman's suicide attack.
Pakistan's Police has released the CCTV footage of the suspect and it has been shared copiously on Twitter:
In many parts of the world, women have been involved in such incidents and organizations like ISIS and Al Qaeda have been using women. However, this has rarely happened in Pakistan.
If the BLA has done this, it is a very dangerous trend. History of Women's suicidebombers is long been involved in insurgency, revolution, and war around the world.
The first female suicide bomber, Sanaa Haidali, a 17-year-old Lebanese girl, was sent by the Syrian Socialist National Party, to blow herself up near an Israeli convoy in Lebanon in 1985.
Five Israeli soldiers were killed in the attack. Incidents of female suicide bombers later spread from Lebanon to other countries, such as Sri Lanka, Turkey, Chechnya, Israel and Iraq.
India saw a Sri Lanka woman bomber killing the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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