Washington’s whispers have a way of becoming Rawalpindi’s roars. And so it is with the banned terrorist outfit Balochistan Liberation Army. A name that once flickered on the periphery of American foreign policy has now been thrust into the stark, unforgiving glare of a Foreign Terrorist Organisation designation. The digital world, that great amplifier of grievances both real and imagined, is now scrambling to adjust.

According to sources within the trust and safety teams of major social media platforms, a digital dragnet is underway. Channels on Telegram and accounts on X, formerly the wild west of Twitter, that bear the BLA’s name or even evocative variations—”Baloch,” “Balochistan”—are being systematically suspended or placed under intense scrutiny. This isn’t just the algorithm at work;........

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