{"id":1683,"date":"2018-04-22T00:46:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T00:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2018-04-22T00:46:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T00:46:30","slug":"taliban-denies-ordering-10-year-old-girl-to-carry-out-suicide-bombing-on-helmand-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/04\/22\/taliban-denies-ordering-10-year-old-girl-to-carry-out-suicide-bombing-on-helmand-checkpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban denies ordering 10-year-old girl to carry out suicide bombing on Helmand checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/taliban-denies-ordering-10-year-old-girl-to-carry-out-suicide-bombing-on-helmand-checkpoint-9047659.html<\/p>\n

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The statement comes a day after the girl, who is known only as Spozhmai, said she refused to carry out an attack in Helmand province after her brother allegedly dressed her in a vest packed with explosives and sent her to a checkpoint.<\/p>\n

According to a police commander, border police in the southern Afghan province had arrested the girl\u2019s father, Abdul Ghfar, and were said to be searching for her brother, Zahir.<\/p>\n

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The girl was detained on Monday and said that her brother Zahir is a Taliban commander.<\/p>\n

However, Qari Yousef Ahamdi, a spokesman from the Taliban, dismissed the story as government propaganda and denied that the group was involved in the alleged plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never do this, especially with girls,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/taliban-denies-ordering-10-year-old-girl-to-carry-out-suicide-bombing-on-helmand-checkpoint-9047659.html   The statement comes a day after the girl, who is known only as Spozhmai, said she refused to carry out an attack in Helmand province after her brother allegedly dressed her in a vest packed with explosives and sent her to a checkpoint. According to a police commander, border police in the southern Afghan province had arrested the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}