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 Reuters was unable to immediately verify, but which analysts see as part of a propaganda effort by insurgents in the resource-rich southwestern province to showcase their movement’s appeal.
Insurgent attacks in Pakistan’s largest yet poorest province hit a record last year, fanning risks to huge investments planned in the region, including Chinese and US interests.
Wider ethnic appeal
