When the State Fears the Truth: Pakistan’s Life Sentence for Dr. Mahrang Baloch

By Mansoor Hussain Laghari

Pakistan’s decision to sentence Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment is not simply a miscarriage of justice.

It is an indictment of a system that has increasingly criminalized dissent, weaponized anti-terror laws, and treated peaceful human rights advocacy as a threat to the state.

Dr. Mahrang Baloch is not a terrorist.

She is a physician, a human rights defender, and the daughter of a disappeared father. For years, she has courageously spoken on behalf of thousands of Baloch families whose loved ones have vanished without explanation.

Her activism has been peaceful.

Her demands have been simple.

Where are the missing?

For asking these questions, Pakistan has sentenced her to life in prison.

The message could not be clearer.

In today’s Pakistan, demanding accountability is becoming more dangerous than committing abuses.

For decades, Baloch........

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