Washington DC, Dec. 19 -- Pakistan's military-backed establishment is increasingly using transnational repression to intimidate critics and activists living abroad, according to Mehlaqa Samdani, executive director of the Community Alliance for Peace and Justice, an advocacy group focused on human rights, democracy and accountability in US foreign policy.

Samdani said she personally experienced this campaign of intimidation when, two months ago, Pakistan's National Cybercrimes Investigations Agency (NCIA) sent a legal notice to her ancestral home in Pakistan, accusing her of spreading "anti-state content" on social media.

The notice did not specify the posts in question but demanded that she appear in person before investigators, warning...