Pandemonium in Pak
Amid a nationwide strike to protest the killing of rebel leader Nawab Akbar Bugti in an army raid, Pakistani authorities on Friday buried his decomposed body (picture above), retrieved from a demolished cave six days after his death, at his native...
By Agencies |
ISLAMABAD: Amid a nationwide strike to protest the killing of rebel leader Nawab Akbar Bugti in an army raid, Pakistani authorities on Friday buried his decomposed body (picture above), retrieved from a demolished cave six days after his death, at his native place in Balochistan disregarding appeals to hand it over to his family.
Fearing reprisals and violent protests which brought Balochistan and parts of Karachi in Sindh province to a standstill for the past six days, — check picture on the right— Pakistan government buried Bugti’s body in haste in the absence of his relatives at a burial ground in Dera Bugti.
The body was earlier brought from the cave by a defence helicopter to Dera Bugti, the town which the rebel leader ruled as a tribal chieftain for over six decades, leading his struggle for provincial autonomy and self rule for Baloch people.
Bugti’s son Jamil Bugti and son-in-law Agha Shahid Bugti said the family had demanded the government to hand over Bugti’s body to them for burial. They said no one from the government’s side contacted them despite claims that the body had been retrieved.
“It is inhuman and unacceptable. It is even un-Islamic to bury a person against the will of his family,” Shahid Bugti said. “Since our contact with the government, we have been insisting that the body should be handed over to us (in Quetta), but now we have been told that the body has been taken to Dera Bugti,” he said.
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“Since Bugti’s two sons — Talal Akbar Bugti and Jamil Akbar Bugti — are alive and present in Quetta, why should his body be handed to over his opponents?” Shahid Bugti asked. Later, Jamil Bugti said he was still not sure if the body the government buried in Dera Bugti was that of his father’s.Download
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