For years, Pakistan has battled not just physical militancy but a well-funded psychological war one that operates behind protest slogans, social media hashtags, and seemingly innocent NGOs. At the center of this dangerous web sits a name increasingly hard to separate from controversy: Mahrang Baloch.
Painted in the West as a human rights activist, Mahrang has emerged as a recurring figure in anti-state narratives. But behind the curated image lies a much darker affiliation one that overlaps disturbingly with separatist propaganda and soft support for terror-linked entities like the BLA.
The playbook is simple: create outrage, distort facts, and invite international condemnation. NGOs operating under foreign grants have long exploited this formula. Under the pretense of “rights advocacy,” these entities often blur the lines between civil activism and ideological militancy. And when you trace the funding trails of certain campaigns amplified by Mahrang, what you often find are Western donors with strategic interests not human rights concerns.
Why, one must ask, do these campaigns never condemn BLA attacks on schoolteachers, laborers, or security personnel? Why is there silence when Balochistan bleeds from within, not because of the state, but because of those who claim to speak for it?
It’s because their goal is not justice it’s disruption. Their mission is not to uplift the Baloch it’s to isolate them from Pakistan. And that’s where the NGO-terror nexus thrives: in ambiguity, in emotional exploitation, and in selective silence.
Pakistan’s fight is not against dissent it is against deceit. When activism becomes a smokescreen for terrorism, when donations fund destabilization, and when public sympathy is weaponized against the state, it becomes not just a national threat, but a moral crisis.
Mahrang Baloch may not carry a gun, but the narratives she empowers have led to many deaths. It’s time to ask: who benefits from this chaos, and who is writing the cheques?
