Newsweek Pakistan's Controversial Cover Features Lit Tampon Bombs

The provocative image was made for a feature story about female suicide bombers.

This is the cover for the Sept. 13 and 20, 2013, edition of Newsweek Pakistan.

Minhaj Ahmed Rafi / Via newsweekpakistan.com

You can read the cover story online here.

Some reactions online have been incredulous.

Some have also praised the story itself.

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You can read the feature in full here.

H/t to Isaac Chotiner