Taliban Try--But Fail--to Turn 10 Year-Old Girl Into Improvised Explosive Device

A very sick story indeed:

An Afghan girl believed to be about 10 years old was found wearing a bomb vest in Helmand province after her brother encouraged her to carry out a suicide attack, officials said on Monday. 

The girl, named as Spogmai, had been persuaded to attack border police after male relatives accused her of having "illicit relations" with officers, according to reports.
She was strapped into a bomb harness by one of her elder brothers and sent across a river to her target in southern Helmand. But she began crying with cold while crossing the river and her brother, a suspected Taliban commander called Zahir, fled, according to the Pahjwok news agency. Some reports said she was still wearing the vest when she handed herself in to the police; others said Zahir took it with him. 

Taliban insurgents are regularly accused of using brainwashed young boys as suicide bombers in attacks on international or government targets, but the use of girls is much rarer.

That's what passes for equal rights in Talibanistan.