Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- On Saturday, Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langau said security forces acting on sensitive intelligence had recovered two minor cousins who were being moved for alleged Balochistan Liberation Army suicide missions. The girls had reportedly been targeted after killings within their families and pressed to turn grief into violence.

The BLA's use of women in suicide operations has become a grim pattern. Its first female suicide attacker killed three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver at Karachi University in April 2022. Three more would-be bombers had been captured in counterterrorism operations in the preceding months.

This reported preparation of children reveals an uglier stage. A group claiming to def...