ISLAMABAD – Wearing military ?fatigues with rifles slung over their shoulders, Yasma Baloch and her husband Waseem smile into the camera for a picture released by Pakistani insurgents after their final mission: detonating suicide bombs.
“They shared a marriage before they shared a final stand,” the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) said in a statement accompanying the heavily edited photograph sent to journalists and distributed on social media.
It was among half-a-dozen pictures and biographies that could not be immediately verified, but which analysts see as part of a propaganda effort by insurgents in the resource-rich southwestern province to showcase their movement’s appeal.
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