Alhumdulillah! The Learned Anti-Terrorism Court-V, Karachi has acquitted BYC Leader @MahrangBaloch_ in FIR No. 654/2024, P.S. Quaidabad. The FIR had been registered under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act; Section 124-A PPC (sedition, despite the provision being ultra vires); Sections 148 PPC (rioting), 149 PPC (unlawful assembly), 153-A PPC (promoting enmity between groups), 500 PPC (defamation of public officials), and 505 PPC (statements conducing to public mischief). The FIR alleged, inter alia, that Mahrang Baloch was affiliated with multiple terrorist outfits, promoting their activities and recruiting for them, misleading youth, promoting enmity against the State, and acting against the national interest. The acquittal exposes, at several levels, the maliciousness with which the State acts against Baloch voices, as well as the failure of civilian institutions to timely ensure their fundamental rights. The complainant, who made these false allegations, was himself an accused in three FIRs at the same police station and was used as a pawn. Police powers were abused, as the police were compelled to submit a challan against Mahrang despite there being no evidence. The prosecution was pressured to pursue the trial without any lawful basis. The judiciary kept Mahrang Baloch entangled in a bogus case for 13 months, even though both the High Court and the Supreme Court could have ended this harassment many months earlier when we filed a petition for quashment and then an appeal. This acquittal further fortifies the concerns of rights activists across Pakistan regarding State oppressions and claims of mala fide on the part of the State in relation to the multiple FIRs registered against BYC leaders in Balochistan, their ongoing incarceration, and their proscription under anti-terrorism laws—both as individuals and as an organization. We are extremely pleased to have represented the BYC leadership as counsel and to have assisted in their just political struggle for the rights of Balochistan and the Baloch people. I would like to acknowledge my associates Rana Daniyal Akram, Jai Pal Jai, and Luke Victor Patrick for their able assistance in all proceedings arising out of this FIR before the Trial Court, High Court, and Supreme Court.