Akbar Bugti

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Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti
13th Governor of Balochistan

Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti
In office
February 15, 1973 – January 3, 1974
Preceded by Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo
Succeeded by Ahmad Yar Khan
5th Chief Minister of Balochistan
In office
February 4, 1989 – August 6, 1990
Preceded by Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan
Succeeded by Taj Muhammad Jamali
19th Tumandar of the Bugti Tribe
Preceded by Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti
Succeeded by Nawab Brahamdagh Khan Bugti
Personal details
Born (1927-07-12)July 12, 1927
Barkhan, Barkhan District, Balochistan
Died August 26, 2006(2006-08-26) (aged 79)
Kohlu, Balochistan
Political party Jamhoori Watan Party
Residence Dera Bugti, Balochistan
Profession Tumandar of Bugti Tribe, Politician
Religion Sunni Muslim

Akbar Khan Bugti (Balochi: نواب اکبر شہاز خان بگٹی) (July 12, 1927–August 26, 2006) was the Tumandar (head) of the Bugti tribe of Baloch and served as Minister of State for Interior and Governor of Balochistan Province in Pakistan.[1]

After a wave of armed struggle started in Balochistan in 2004, Bugti was widely perceived as the leader but went underground in 2005. On August 26, he was killed in his cave in Kohlu, about 150 miles east of Quetta, leading to widespread unrest in the area.[2]

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Early life and family [edit]

Bugti, meeting with Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Bugti, A childhood photo.

Nawab Akbar Khan was born in Barkhan the rural home of the Khetran a Baloch tribe to which his mother belonged and now a district of Balochistan, on July 12, 1927. He was the son of Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti and a grandson of Sir Shahbaz Khan Bugti.[3] He received his early education from Aitchison College and received Higher Education from Oxford University.[4][unreliable source?]

Balochistan conflict [edit]

Bugti was involved in struggles, at times armed ones, in Balochistan in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He led the current movement in Balochistan for greater autonomy. He was the public face and provided political support for the movement while his grandson, Brahamdagh Khan Bugti, led the Bugti tribesmen.[5]

In recent years, he was accused by the Pakistani government of being a warlord and running a well-organized militia, sometimes thought to be the shadowy Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) with members numbering in the thousands. The BLA allegedly ran dozens of militant guerrilla training camps. While campaigning from the mountain ranges of Dera Bugti, he was, according to the Pakistani government, directing a “Mullah Omar” style guerrilla war. In July 2006, Pakistani president General Musharraf targeted him through aerial bombing, using air force jets and gunship helicopters. The leader of Balochistan National Party, Sardar Akhtar Mengal said, "The increase in bomb attacks in the Bugti and Marri areas are meant to target Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and his associates" and called upon the international community to take note of the situation.[6]

Death [edit]

On Saturday August 26, 2006, Bugti was killed when a shell exploded in the cave in which his camp was set. The Pakistani government launched a missile and it resulted in the cave shattering down into pieces killing Saab and his men.[7][8] when they raided his mountain hideout.[9]

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf termed his death a victory for Pakistanis and congratulated the secret service chief who carried out this operation.[10] Pakistan's Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani, confirmed that the operation included both air and ground assault.stating that Bugti's death occurred as the cave he was in collapsed.[11][12]

Aftermath [edit]

Funeral and rioting [edit]

Bugti's death was followed by rioting by thousands of students from the state-run Balochistan university and other balochs .[13] As the news flashed across television screens in Pakistan, the government deployed Rangers and paramilitary forces across major cities to prevent a backlash and impose a curfew in the provincial capital, Quetta.[13] Security arrangements for the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have been beefed up to the highest level, and his movement has since been very restricted, fearing a retaliatory attack. Security arrangements have been further enhanced in and around all airports of Pakistan. The media both in Pakistan and outside have severely condemend the killing as the "[m]ilitary’s second biggest blunder after Bhutto’s execution" and calling it a "political nightmare".[14] Others have likened it to the East Bengal crisis of 1971 where military violence eventually led to the Bangladesh Liberation War.[15]

On August 27, 2006, some private media broadcast news that Bugti's grandsons, Brahamdagh and Mir Ali, are still alive, but no official confirmation has been made.[citation needed]

On September 1, 2006 Bugti was buried in Dera Bugti with three locks on his coffin, next to the graves of his son and brother. His family, who wanted a public funeral in Quetta, did not attend the burial, they protested against his body being locked in the coffin.[16]

On 26 September 2010 Abdul Qayyum Khan Jatoi, a senior Pakistan federal minister criticized and accused the army of killing of Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti in a raid in 2006. He was later made to resign following this disclosure.[17]

Investigation and prosection [edit]

On 11 July 2012 a Pakistani anti-terrorism court at Sibi in Balochistan province issued arrest warrants for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and several others who were accused of involvement in the killing of Akbar Bugti in 2006.[18] The warrants were issued by Judge Muhammad Nawaz Khan of the anti-terrorism court at Sibi in Balochistan province. The arrest warrants were issued for Pervez Musharraf, former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, former Balochistan Governor Owais Ghanni, former chief minister Jam Yusuf, former provincial home minister Shoaib Nosherwani and former deputy commissioner Abdul Samad Lasi. All of them were named as suspects in an FIR registered by police regarding the killing of Bugti in a military operation that was ordered by Musharraf.[18]

See also [edit]

Further reading [edit]

  • Matheson, Sylvia A. The Tigers of Balochistan. London: Arthure Barker Limited (1967). Reprint: Oxford University Press, Karachi (1998), ISBN 0-19-577763-8.

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Banerjee, Paula; Chaudhury, Sabyasachi Basu Ray; Das, Samir Kumar; Adhikari, Bishnu (2005). Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN's Guiding Principles. SAGE. ISBN 0-7619-3313-1. 
  2. ^ LONDON: protest against Martyrdom of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti - News - News - BALOCHWARNA
  3. ^ "Turning a fight into a war". The Economist. June 29, 2006. 
  4. ^ Schmidle, Nicholas (2007-04-01). "Waiting for the prosperity: Baluchistan, 2006". Virginia Quarterly Review. Retrieved 2009-05-06. "He got a kick out of peddling myths to wide-eyed foreign correspondents—such as the one that he went to Oxford or that he killed his first man at age eleven, both of which are false but appear regularly in stories about him." 
  5. ^ PakNationalists.com
  6. ^ "Baloch air strikes aimed at nationalist leaders: Mengal" - The Hindu, July 10, 2006
  7. ^ Pakistan Daily Times
  8. ^ "Lonely burial for Baloch leader". BBC. 1 September 2006. Retrieved 24 February 2012. 
  9. ^ Sattar, Abdul (28 August 2006). "Killing of Pakistani tribal chief sparks fury and fears of war". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 24 February 2012. 
  10. ^ [tribune.com.pk/story/297922/akbar-bugti-death-balochistan-issues-arrest-warrants-for-musharraf-aziz/ Akbar Bugti Death: Balochistan issues arrest warrants for Musharraf, Aziz], November 26, 2011, QUETTA, The Express Tribune
  11. ^ Akbar Bugti killed in army operation, August 27, 2006, ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/ QUETTA, Daily Times
  12. ^ Unrest after Pakistan rebel death, 27 August 2006, bbc.co.uk
  13. ^ a b "Unrest after Pakistan rebel death" - BBC News, August 27, 2006
  14. ^ "Media slams killing of Nawab Bugti" - Press Trust Of India, The Indian Express, August 29, 2006
  15. ^ "India, Baloch put Mush under pressure" - by Parul Malhotra, CNN IBN, August 28, 2006
  16. ^ "Lonely burial for Baloch leader". BBC News. 2006-09-01. Archived from the original on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-01. 
  17. ^ "Pakistan minister resigns after accusing army of killings". The Guardian (London). 26 September 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2012. 
  18. ^ a b "Pak court issues arrest warrant for Musharraf in Bugti case". The Times of India. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012. 

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Political offices
Preceded by
Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo		 Governor of Balochistan
1973 – 1974		 Succeeded by
Ahmad Yar Khan
Preceded by
Khuda Bux Marri		 Chief Minister of Balochistan
1989 – 1990		 Succeeded by
Mir Humayun Khan Marri
Authority control
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