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Bugti has been in hiding since his tribesmen broke a ceasefire and attacked government troops in February 2005. He has disguised himself as a "nationalist", fighting for the rights of his tribesmen and province. Those who have been aware of Bugti's tyrannical and plundering rule find the notion of Bugti being a nationalist as laughable. |
Bugti has been in hiding since his tribesmen broke a ceasefire and attacked government troops in February 2005. He has disguised himself as a "nationalist", fighting for the rights of his tribesmen and province. Those who have been aware of Bugti's tyrannical and plundering rule find the notion of Bugti being a nationalist as laughable. |
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Revision as of 01:28, 22 July 2006
Sardar Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti is the Tumandar (head) of the Bugti tribe,a warrior clan from Dera Bugti, Balochistan.
He is the son of Nawab Mehrab Khan Bugti and a grandson of Sir Shahbaz Khan Bugti. He was born in Barkhan on July 12, 1927. At present (2006) , he is 79 years old. A former Governor and Chief Minister of Balochistan. He was educated at Oxford,England, Aitchison College,Lahore and Karachi Grammar School but he lives by laws more than a thousand years old. He has declared that he killed his first man when he was only 12, and that he killed another 100 men to avenge the assassination of his son (Salal Bugti).
He is accused of being a Warlord and having a private militia (army) numbered in thousands, storing weapons of mass destruction, hundreds of murders, torture, running private prisons and courts and is currently in hiding from government forces in the mountain ranges of Dera Bugti from where he is directing a guerrilla war.
Jamil Akbar Bugti, Talal Akbar Bugti and Shahzwar Akbar Khan Bugti are the sons of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. Brahamdagh Bugti is the grandson of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.
Slyvia Matheson wrote a book on him called 'The Tigers of Balochistan'.
Background
Nawab Akbar Bugti was elected in a bye-election to the National Assembly of Pakistan in May 1958 to fill the vacancy created as a result of the assassination of the incumbent, Dr Khan Sahib and sat on the government benches as a member of the ruling coalition.
Nawab Akbar Bugti (Republican) served as Minister of State (Interior) in the government of Prime Minister Sir Feroz Khan Noon (Republican) from September 20, 1958 - October 7, 1958, when the cabinet was dismissed on the declaration of Martial Law by President Iskander Mirza.
He was arrested and convicted by a Military Tribunal in 1960, and subsequently disqualified from holding public office. As a result of his legal battles, he did not contest the 1970 general elections. Instead he campaigned on behalf of his younger brother, Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Bugti, a candidate of the National Awami Party.
However, Nawab Akbar Bugti developed differences with the NAP leadership, especially the new Balochistan Governor, Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo. Nawab Bugti informed the Federal Government and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistan Peoples Party) about the alleged London Plan, which resulted in the dismissal of the provincial governor as well as the Chief Minister Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal and his cabinet on February 14, 1973.
The next day the Federal Government appointed Nawab Akbar Bugti as the Governor of Balochistan, and the Pakistan Army was deployed in the province as part of a crackdown on the National Awami Party.
Nawab Akbar Bugti resigned on January 1, 1974 after disagreeing with the manner in which the Federal Government was carrying out policies in Balochistan.
There was a lull in his activities when General Rahimuddin Khan was appointed as Governor of Balochistan in 1978. Bugti remained silent throughout the course of Rahimuddin's rule, which was often characterized by hostility towards the Baloch Sardars.
In 1988, Nawab Bugti joined the Balochistan National Alliance and was elected Chief Minister on February 4, 1989. His government frequently disagreed with the Federal Government led by the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan Peoples Party).
Nawab Akbar Bugti resigned on August 6, 1990 when the provincial assembly was dissolved by Governor of Balochistan General Muhammad Musa Khan in accordance with the instructions of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan exercising his authority by virtue of Article 58 (2 b) of the Constitution of Pakistan.
The incoming caretaker Chief Minister Mir Humayun Khan Marri was the son-in-law of Nawab Akbar Bugti.
For the 1990 General Elections, Nawab Akbar Bugti formed his own political party, the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), being Balochistan's single largest party and was elected to the provincial assembly.
In 1993, Nawab Akbar Bugti was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan representing the JWP in parliament.
Bugti was involved in failed insurgencies in Balochistan in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is at the forefront of a tribal war of independence, currently waging in Balochistan. Bugti provides the public face and political support for the insurgency while his grandson Brahamdagh Bugti leads the Bugti tribesmen.
In Hiding:
Bugti has been in hiding since his tribesmen broke a ceasefire and attacked government troops in February 2005. He has disguised himself as a "nationalist", fighting for the rights of his tribesmen and province. Those who have been aware of Bugti's tyrannical and plundering rule find the notion of Bugti being a nationalist as laughable.
In June and July of 2006, several hundred tribesmen and commanders who served in Bugti's militia surrendered to the government.
External links
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1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4680290.stm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4652882.stm
3. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C04%5C08%5Cstory_8-4-2006_pg3_4
4. http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2006-weekly/nos-19-03-2006/dia.htm#1
5. http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0603/dis_moore.html
6. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/21/wpak21.xml
7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4372789.stm
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4371641.stm
9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4216965.stm
10. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4243129.stm
11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4195933.stm
12. http://www.dawn.com/herald/marmain06.htm#3
13. http://www.dawn.com/herald/feb06.htm#2
14. http://baltimore.indymedia.org/mod/search/dosearch/index.php?dosearch=1&medium=&searchtext=Bugti&form_section=&lang=en_US&month_start=&day_start=&year_start=&month_end=05&day_end=18&year_end=2006&orderby=score+DESC&submit=Search
15. http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2006-03/2006-03-02-voa52.cfm
16. http://www.flonnet.com/fl2302/stories/20060210000706200.htm
17. http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/28/stories/2006032804231000.htm
18. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/23/pakistan.baluch.ap/
19. http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/19/nat5.htm
20. http://balochwarna.org/modules/articles/article.php?id=128
21. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/world/asia/02pakistan.html?ei=5088&en=bc5195902af514ae&ex=1301630400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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