Lahore (Staff Report): Currently detained girl in encounter, Noreen Leghari has confessed that she was supposed to be the suicide bomber.
According to details, the innocent-looking Hyderabad’s medical student, Naureen Laghari, was arrested after her husband was killed in an encounter in Lahore, has confessed that she would have been used as a suicide bomber in the planned attack on Easter celebrations if it wasn’t for the security forces’ timely intervention.
Noreen’s official statement was released by law enforcement agencies on Monday in which she confessed to the crime that wasn’t committed, “I was to be used as a suicide attacker.”
She said, “The organisation [Islamic State] had provided two suicide jackets, four hand grenades and some bullets on April 1, 2017, which were to be used in a church during Easter celebrations.”
However, intelligence-based operation by security forces thwarted their plan near Punjab Housing Society, Lahore on Friday where Naureen’s husband, Ali Tariq, was killed, while four soldiers and two cops received injuries.
She said, “Ali had plans of terror attacks from the very beginning, like, suicide attacks and kidnapping intelligence officials. A boy called Abu Fauji was involved with him in such activities.”
Through her statement she made it clear that no one had kidnapped her as she had left for Lahore on her own free will.
Earlier she revealed, “My name is Naureen and I belong to Hyderabad. My father’s name is Abdul Jabbar who is a professor at Sindh University. I am a student of second year MBBS in Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences.”