Balochistan, June 12 -- Mahrang Baloch, a well-known Baloch rights activist, accused the Pakistani government of targeting peaceful dissenters through imprisonment, smear campaigns, and enforced disappearances in an article written from her prison cell in Quetta's Hudda Jail, according to The Balochistan Post.

Mahrang Baloch writes: "It has been more than two and a half months since I was thrown into Hudda Prison in Quetta, Pakistan--the same place my father was caged nearly two decades ago, also for promoting the rights of the people of Balochistan," TBP stated.

"Since my arrest, Pakistan's state security agencies have deployed every tactic to break me. I have been offered a deal: stay silent, avoid political activity, and you can be h...