Was there enough intact to know for sure.. the Islamists (political Islam, Sharia law, jihad advocates) demand we accept burqas for a reason -- and it ain't peaceful.
Tariq Khan and another local official, Sohail Khan, said an examination of the human remains has confirmed the bomber was a woman.
Hasan Askari Rizvi, a Lahore-based security and political analyst, said the suicide bombing appeared to be the first carried out by a woman in Pakistan.
“It is no surprise. They can use a woman, a child or whatever,” Rizvi said. “Human life is not important to them, only the objective they are pursuing” of undermining state power, he added.
Male suicide bombers often don the burqa — an Islamic dress that also covers the woman’s face — as a disguise. In 2007, officials initially claimed Pakistan’s first female suicide bomber had killed 14 people in the northwest town of Bannu but the attacker was later identified as a man. Islamic militants in Iraq have used women suicide bombers several times, since women in their all-enveloping robes are seen as able to pass more easily through security, especially since male security officers are often hesitant to search women.
thinking the same thing - I read somewhere that Arafat donned a burka when he had to flee Jordan (the King there had a crawful of the “Palestinians” -— so, on to start a civil war in Lebanon.
Funny, there was no outrage from the islamists when Syria banned the burqa in some places.