Pakistan, May 8 -- The most dangerous lie in Balochistan today is that every armed agenda can be cleaned up by calling it resistance. The Balochistan Liberation Army has learned the grammar of modern propaganda: kill first, upload later, then wait for sympathetic networks to blur the line between suspect and victim, militant and martyr, coercion and conviction. The Balochistan Liberation Front and allied separatist outfits work the same terrain, where violence on the ground is followed by absolution online.

The facts speak for themselves. BLA has been proscribed by Pakistan since 2006, was designated by the United States as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity in 2019, and was listed by Washington as a foreign terrorist organis...