Pakistan

Woman carrying explosives into Islamabad arrested

Islamabad police seized 130 kilograms of explosive material at IJ Principal Road, vehicle coming from Peshawar.

Express November 22, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police seized 130 kilograms of explosive material at IJ Principal Road on Sunday night.

Express 24/7 correspondernt Sohail Chaudhry reported that the explosives were being carried into Islamabad from Peshawar on a Toyota HiAce vehicle bearing the number plate C-1784.

Islamabad police have arrested a woman named Amtri Bibi, who was allegedly carrying the explosives into the capital. She has been shifted to the women's police station for questioning.

A case has also been registered in Islamabad under section 5/6 Explosives Act.

Security in the capital has been increased after a terrorist attack in Pakpattan at the Baba Farid shrine in October this year.

COMMENTS (29)

Atif Khan | 13 years ago | Reply I love it when opinion get truncated in the section. Makes a funny meaning.

Nughma Siddiq | 14 years ago | Reply It is very hard to believe that this frail, simple looking woman could be capable of smuggling explosives. I think the media should get to the bottom of this and if required protect the woman, who could be victimized in this case.

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User | 14 years ago | Reply *oh very sad*

Pakistan One | 14 years ago | Reply She is just made a scape goat. I saw on another TV channel that she was being victimised by police and they are accusing her of different crimes and then back tracking from it. Being poor is now a crime.

Shoaib Farooqui | 14 years ago | Reply @Danish any ideas as to what happened to the driver then? :)

feriex | 14 years ago | Reply She looks very poor,she is forced to do. Terrorist should avoid these poor people.

Atif Khan | 14 years ago | Reply @Shahryar Ahmed, take the law take its course. We are not animals, we have laws although no order. If she is culprit sentence her, if she is framed let us know. It is a thin line.

Sana Saleem | 14 years ago | Reply Police Please find the culprits behind the scene. These people are just the play things !

Sabina Pasha | 14 years ago | Reply No wonder the state of Pakistan from Karachi to Islamabad is in such a pathetic state. Just reading the many posting its laughable.One poster is glad that the check post are so well maintained with corrupt officials that look the other way while innocent people are killed. Instead of making light of these tragic situations where is the common anger that your country Pakistan has been hijacked by extremist while you all wonder if the woman is a driver or a passenger if she is driving a Toyota or some other make or this is a fake story. The people of Pakistan are looking like a bunch of sissies who have given up the good fight; where I ask is the OUTRAGE? Where are the civilian militia that make citizen arrest and remove the scum that stroll the streets with a new founded vigor because they can afford to bully, intimidate and kill. So why we pat our ISL police on the rump; the world is looking at Pakistan with suspicion and foreign companies will refuse to invest in different industries and the hundreds of graduates from college & universities around the country have a dim future and the jobs go to India and China while they suck in the rupees and The Renminbi into their banks

Mohammed Abbasi | 14 years ago | Reply daughter of the nation indeed

Yasir | 14 years ago | Reply Wow, another daughter of the nation (qaum ki baitii) discovered.

Khan | 14 years ago | Reply @Hammad ... what do you mean by how she survived all those check posts ? I went to Pak after 5 years some times back ... and saw all those check posts every where.. was so impressed that only our police has such sophisticated torch lights ... by using them they don't need to stop a single car in fact ... they just wave them at your car and that's it ... Pak need to export such amazing technology.

Rustam Ali(Gold medalist) | 14 years ago | Reply good effort by police. well done boys

Hammad | 14 years ago | Reply Fake Story. Islamabad Police has now Adopted a New Trend About Fake Encounters and Arrests This is the same Case which Happend i think3 months Back when a Women was Arrested on Chck Post Coming from Peshawar. Hw She Survived all those Posts Coming on the way towards Isb? They think PpL Are fools ?? God Save Us :-))

Shahryar Ahmed | 14 years ago | Reply @ Atif Khan, what makes you say she was not sent by Taliban, Oh yes ofcourse you meant she is a CIA-MOSSAD-RAW spy sent to blow up herself, Rite......How clever!!!!!! She is coming from KP & had explosives in her custody, Mr. Khan. She might be innocent or might be coerced into doing such an act but we must accept its our own country men, Muslim, who are hell bent on changing our lives. Stop sympathizing with these Talibans or Al-Qeada types for god sakes, it your children's future on stake.

K T | 14 years ago | Reply She wasnt driving but used one of the passenger Toyota HiAce that run between Peshawar and Islamabad. Ffs have some sense.

Syed Muhammad Waqas Shabir | 14 years ago | Reply With the never ending increase in poverty, injustice & corruption; POOR and miscellaneous vulnerables would become an easy prey...

Tamoor azhar | 14 years ago | Reply thanks our agencies good job .pakistan zindabad

Qadir Khan | 14 years ago | Reply The woman should not be the focus of attention but the source and the causes which is making her do so

naasir | 14 years ago | Reply So this woman was driving a Toyota Hiace. Wow!! Our intel guys have to come up with something better than this to be beleivable.

Rizwan T Khan | 14 years ago | Reply Seems like she was black mailed and forced to take up this action. May be husband or children kidnapped.

Danish | 14 years ago | Reply @ Shoaib Farooqui...... she was a passenger.....lol

kalia | 14 years ago | Reply its sad to see this new tactics, the only way to stop this kind smuggling it via good Intelligence, its impposible to snap check cargo and passenger transport coming in each city.

S.Haque | 14 years ago | Reply Islamabad or Mumbai.. its the same, innocent die. I wonder when are we going to learn our lesson!!

Shoaib Farooqui | 14 years ago | Reply Okay so this malnourished woman was driving a Toyota HiAce? Must have been a sight.

Atif Khan | 14 years ago | Reply @Someone, wow you are faster than the police in investigations. Good job finding out she is Taliban.

Someone | 14 years ago | Reply I thought Talibs always treated women as nonexistent and non-mahram....but using them for jihad...is that a new tactic?

prasad | 14 years ago | Reply Yipeee! A lead. I hope this lady is thoroughly investigated by (if not the police) the media - where is she from - who gave her the explosives - what was the target - who are her partners in crime - who is the kingpin - who makes the explosives etc etc. Enough of the 'where are we going as a society' articles - lets have some investigative journalism laden only with facts.

majid islam | 14 years ago | Reply good morning.its very sad to know that this is happening in even islamabad.where security is so tight.thanks to isb police

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