KABUL: The Afghan Taliban have denied the reports that they sent a girl to carry out a suicide attack against Afghan border police in southern Helmand province, terming it as government propaganda against them.
In a statement, the spokesman of the Taliban Qari Yousef Ahamdi denied any involvement in the alleged plot, and said that ‘We never do this, especially with girls.”
On Monday, the Afghan interior ministry said that the Afghan police arrested a 10-year-old girl, named as Spozhmai, who intended to carry out a suicide attack at a police checkpoint in the district of Khanashin of Helmand province.
The Afghan interior minister said that the girl was sent on the mission by her brother, a local Taliban commander, but she refused to detonate her explosives-packed vest at the checkpoint. Subsequently, police detained the girl.
Meanwhile, the border police in the southern Afghan province arrested the father of the girl, Abdul Ghafar, and were searching for the brother.
