PAKISTAN’S stormy history of political and rights protests shows that even the use of excessive state brutality has never been able to fracture the commitment of women political workers. It seems particularly pertinent to highlight this as more and more women are made targets for suppression and lawfare by an overreaching state. Consider how women political prisoners have been treated lately. Three months after the Baloch Yakjehti Committee’s Mahrang Baloch was arrested, the Balochistan High Court in April rejected her bail petitions after Balochistan’s advocate general argued her release “will cause unrest”. Thereafter, her........

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