Pakistan, June 2 -- There is an image the Balochistan Liberation Army wants the world to see: a woman in militant fatigues, renamed as resistance and pushed across sympathetic media feeds.

There is another image that it fears more. A nurse sitting before cameras in Quetta, saying she had been misled, trapped and blackmailed. A teenage girl stopped on a bus before she could meet a handler. A law student, a teacher, a health worker, a daughter, a mother; each removed from the ordinary protections of family and community and delivered into the machinery of terror.

Between these two images lies the truth of BLA's latest doctrine. It is not a war for Baloch women. It is a war on them.

For years, the BLA and its media ecosystem have tried to...