Pakistan, May 8 -- Some masks take longer to fall than others, but when they do, the sight is deeply sobering. For some time, a group calling itself the Baloch Yakjehti Committee has presented itself internationally as a human rights advocate and a voice for the missing. The mask is off now, and what stands behind it is not a rights movement. It is the civilian operating system of a banned terrorist network, and the evidence has grown too numerous to ignore.

These are not words used lightly. Look at the method, and it repeats so mechanically that it reads like a script: an alleged disappearance is publicised, emotive material floods social media, and within hours, state institutions stand accused, long before any official report is lodge...