'Militants using women, children as human shields'.

QUETTA -- Banned militant organisations have been using women and children as human shieAlds for their violent activities and they later dissociate themselves from these people, Balochistan government officials said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a joint press conference on WedAnesday, Balochistan CTD DIG Aitzaz Goraya and CM's spokesman Babar Khan Yousafzai said that Mahal Baloch, who was arrested on Feb 19 along with a suicide jacket from Quetta's Satellite Town, admitted her association with the outlawed BLF.

They presented a video message of Mahal Baloch in which she confessed her link with the BLF and said her husband was also working for the banned organisation.

'My husband was kilAled along with his brother in 2016 and I shifted to Karachi with my in-laws where...