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Mourners gather for Bugti’s
death anniversary
Staff Report

QUETTA: Hundreds of politicians, retired bureaucrats, political workers, lawyers and others gathered at Mian Ghundi
in the outskirts of the provincial capital on Saturday to offer fateha for the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, a day before
his first death anniversary.

Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, the eldest son of the late Bugti tribe chief, hosted the visitors at his ‘Bugti Bloak’ in Mian
Ghundi for the programme of mourning. With black flags hanging on all sides, the ceremony was attended by Kachkol
Ali Baloch, leader of the opposition in Balochistan Assembly, Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch, president of the National Party,
Dr Jahanzeb Jamaldini, acting president of the Balochistan National Party, Dr Abdul Hakeem Lehri, president of the
Balochistan National Congress, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, chief of Jalawan, Mohammad Sadiq Raisani, president of
the Baloch Bar Association, and many other local notables.

However, Talal Bugti, another son of Nawab Bugti, who is engaged in domestic infighting with his elder brother Jamil,
did not attend the programme of mourning. Neither did Amanullah Kanrani, Bugti’s former spokesman, or Senator
Agha Shahid Bugti, the Nawab’s son-in-law and secretary general of Bugti’s Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), or any other
JWP parliamentarian.

Police personnel deployed at a nearby check-post disallowed several Bugti admirers from going to Bugti Bloak.

Jamil Bugti told Daily Times that thousands of people attended the programme, disproving the government claim that
Nawab Akbar Bugti was unpopular among his own tribesmen.

“Akbar Khan was undeniably the undisputed hero of Balochistan. The Baloch land will never ever give birth to any
other Akbar Khan. He was unique and irreplaceable,” he said.

He said Nawab Bugti had led the people of the smaller provinces in the fight for their rights. The Baloch parties must
unite on a single platform to achieve their common goals, he said.

Paying tribute to Nawab Bugti, veteran nationalist leader Dr Abdul Hayee said his killing had deepened instead of
improving the Balochistan crisis.

Courtsey of Daily Times

Pro-Bugti rally held in Lyari
By Munawar Pirzada

KARACHI: In order to hurt Pakistan economically, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) targets its electricity
installations, the outfit said in an eight-page pamphlet that was distributed Sunday during a Baloch Solidarity
Committee 500-strong rally on the first death anniversary of Baloch Nawab Akbar Bugti.

The rally was attended by seven groups – Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Baloch Students Organisation, Baloch Rights Council,
Jamhoori Watan Party, Baloch National Movement, Baloch National Party. It took place in Chakiwara’s Baloch Chowk,
a predominantly Baloch neighbourhood in Lyari Town.

A BLA video recording in Barahavi language on DVD was converted into the Urdu pamphlet that was distributed by the
Baloch Solidarity Committee. Speeches were made in Barahavi by Sangat Sana Baloch, Khalil Baloch, Agha Abid
Shah, Abdul Wahab Baloch, Abdul Hameed Sajna, Shehzada Zafar Jan, Khwaja Abdul Qadir Qalandariani. Bugti’s
grandson, Khwaja Murtaza Bugti, was a member of the audience. He did not address the crowd. The BLA itself is a
banned organization.

The people who turned up for the rally were mostly students who loudly shouted anti-Pakistan statements.

“The people of Balochistan should not think that when we target power installations it is meant to be against them,”
the pamphlet said. “We can destroy all of Pakistan’s electricity installations.” The BLA also said that it was monitoring
the young Baloch who wanted to join the BLA. “We are constantly testing them,” the paper said, adding that the outfit
brought the right ones into the fold on its own. As for the media, the BLA said that all television channels are being
used for the enemy’s advantage. “The tide will turn and then these [channels] will be held accountable.” The BLA
appealed to the Baloch people to boycott the elections.

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Baloch group claims killed six security men in blast
QUETTA: Six security personnel were killed and five injured in a remote control bomb blast in Dera Bugti district on
Saturday, while security forces arrested five Bugti tribesmen, claimed a Baloch militant organisation.

Speaking to Daily Times via satellite phone from an unidentified place, Sarbaz Baloch, a spokesman for an apparently
new separatist Baloch outfit, the Baloch Republican Army (BRA), said his organisation accepted responsibility for the
remote control bomb blast. However, the BRA claim could not be confirmed through independent sources. The
spokesman contended that the BRA had blown up six personnel of the security forces early on Saturday morning, as
they conducted a routine patrol in the Sangsila area of Dera Bugti.

“More such attacks will follow on the occupant Punjabi army,” warned Sarbaz Baloch, adding that the insurgency
would continue until the “complete independence” of Balochistan.

He said the security forces had whisked away five members of the Bugti tribe. “These people tired to offer fateha on
the eve of Nawab Bugti’s death anniversary when they were taken away, leaving their families clueless about their
whereabouts,” he said. The arrested persons also include a former servant of Akbar Bugti who was identified as
Doda Khan. staff report.

Women block Quetta’s Jinnah Road
to protest for missing people
Staff Report

QUETTA: Several Baloch women blocked Jinnah Road here for an hour on Saturday afternoon and demanded the
recovery of what they enumerated as 4,000 missing Baloch people, who are allegedly in the custody of intelligence
agencies.

The protest, which was held by the Baloch Women Panel and supported by the Baloch Students’ Organisation, was
also joined by a large number of children. The rally was started from the Quetta Press Club.

The protestors carried posters and placards inscribed with messages demanding the release of political workers.
With their faces covered, the Baloch women blocked Manan Chowk, causing disruption for traffic for almost an hour.

They shouted slogans against the government and in support of Baloch insurgents.

Talking to Daily Times on condition of anonymity, one of the women protestors alleged that the government had
resumed the military operation in the province and that the number of cases of enforced disappearances had
mounted in recent weeks.

“We are fighting for justice. Everyday our brothers and elders are being picked up by the intelligence agencies without
any charges against them,” she said.

The protestors demanded the immediate release of Sardar Akhtar Mengal, president of the Balochistan National
Party, Gulam Mohammad, president of the Balochistan National Movement, Munir Mengal, managing director of
Baloch Voice TV channel, Wahid Qambar and many other people allegedly whisked away by the intelligence agencies
and never produced before a court.

“We want the chief justice of Pakistan to take notice of the widespread violation of human rights in Balochistan. The
federal and provincial governments have been unable to peacefully resolve the Balochistan issue,” said Farhat Bibi,
another protestor who was wearing a black ribbon around her head reading “Black Day”.

The protestors demanded that the United Nations and international human rights organisations investigate the cases
of missing people in Balochistan.

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Balochistan newspapers remember Bugti
QUETTA: Newspapers in Balochistan paid tribute to late Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti on
Sunday with supplements, editorials and special articles on his first death anniversary.

Balochistan Times, Balochistan’s oldest English language newspaper, ran a supplement on Bugti’s life and political
career along with his picture dominating the front page. Balochistan Express, another English newspaper, published
a four-page special supplement with an editorial titled “Remembering Nawab Akbar Bugti”, in which it held the
Balochistan government and its allies responsible for Bugti’s death. “The provincial government, including both its
political allies the MMA and the Balochistan National Party (Awami), are equally responsible for ... Nawab Bugti’s
[martyrdom] in commando action,” commented the paper. Balochistan Express said Bugti was a “dynamic leader who
thought [armed struggle] was a legitimate means to achieve Baloch rights on the pattern of China and Vietnam”.
Azadi, an Urdu newspaper, also ran a four-page supplement, a lead story and an editorial about the tribal chieftain
and founder of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP). In its editorial, the newspaper quoted lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd as
saying, “Bugti was a towering figure who was killed by very small people.”

It also quoted former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Attaullah Mengal as saying, “Nawab Akbar was initially the
chief of the Bugti tribe, but has now emerged as the chief of the whole Baloch people.” Asaap published an editorial
saying Bugti had written such a preface to the history of Baloch struggle that a reader did not need to go inside the
book to learn more. His, the newspaper said, was a self-explanatory struggle.

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