California, May 14 -- Mariam Solaimankhil, a member of Afghanistan's Parliament in exile, has sharply criticised Pakistan's military establishment for abuses, including enforced disappearances, exploitation of natural resources, and the suppression of peaceful activists.

She described the situation not as counterinsurgency, as Pakistan claims, but as "forced colonisation, forced occupation."

While speaking to ANI, Solaimankhil said, "I think everyone is sick of a military dictatorship that they're living under. In Balochistan, we have peaceful nonviolent activists like Dr. Mahang Baloch, who's in prison, but people like Osama bin Laden and the leaders of Lashkar e Taiba are allowed to roam freely within the country."

She added, "In Bal...