Pakistan’s Shadow Deal With Spyware: How Predator Turned Inward on Balochistan

A leaked cache on the Intellexa consortium reveals that Israeli-linked Predator spyware was aimed at a Baloch human rights lawyer, exposing the reach of Pakistan’s secret surveillance state and its qu

A new spyware scandal landed squarely in Pakistan’s already fraught human rights landscape. An investigation led by Amnesty International revealed forensic evidence that Predator commercial spyware tied to the Israeli-linked Intellexa consortium had been deployed against at least one human rights lawyer in Balochistan. The finding places Pakistan among …