Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
So whats next for the country?
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
'Nuff said
acha to'tay miaN. :D
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This is what the Balochi “freedom fighters” aka terrorists do. Good riddance to their leader.
http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/30/top5.htm
Four people were killed in a bomb blast in a Hub restaurant and clashes between protesters and law-enforcement personnel left many, including a police constable, injured across Balochistan on Tuesday.
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
More resentmmet boiling up, till it eventually explodes.
A slow, but sure disintegration
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
The Baloch continue to mourn en masse, a man who in death is hailed as a legendary Baloch freedom fighter
http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/30/top4.htm
Thousands attend funeral prayers: PML members forced to leave
QUETTA, Aug 29: Thousands of people attended the Ghaibana Namaz-i-Janaza of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in the cricket ground of the Ayub Stadium here on Tuesday.
Youths raising slogans against the state and Gen Pervez Musharraf smashed windowpanes of the gallery of the stadium and damaged a portrait of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Some of them protested against the presence of some leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League in the ground, prompting organisers to issue an advice on loudspeakers that all PML men should leave the place.
City District Nazim Mir Maqbool Lehri and Chiltan Nazim Mir Ismail Lehri, who belong to the ruling PML, left the ground.
A group of protesters hurled stones on former chief minister Mir Taj Muhammad Jamali who was in the VIP lounge.
A group of people tried to attack Mr Taj Jamali and Mr Feroz Lehri while they were leaving the ground before the funeral prayer but activists of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) and Balochistan National Party-Mengal protected them. Some of the activists suffered injuries.
The leader of JWP’s parliamentary party in the Balochistan Assembly, Haji Juma Bugti, was not allowed to enter the ground for having attended an anti-Akbar Bugti jirga.
Funeral prayers were held smoothly after the departure of PML members. Maulana Abdul Aziz led the prayers.
Later, spokesmen of the JWP and BNP-M complained that police had barred thousands of mourners coming from Khuzdar and Nushki from attending the prayers.
The four-party Baloch Alliance said that funeral prayers were also offered in different districts of the province.
Those who attended the prayers included Nawabzada Jamil Bugti and Nawabzada Talal Bugti, sons of Nawab Akbar Bugti; Sardar Ataullah Mengal, former National Assembly speaker Ilahi Bakhsh Soomro, Mohammed Aslam Bhootani, deputy speaker of the Balochistan Assembly; Dr Hayee Baloch of the National Party, Mir Humayun Marri and Senator Shahid Hasan Bugti of the JWP, Senator Nawab Ayaz Khan Jogezai of Pushtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, chief of Jhalawan; Sardar Akhtar Mengal of BNP-M, Arbab Zahir Kasi of Awami National Party, Mir Sher Ali Mazari, Allama Yaqoob Tawasoli, Jamal Jogezai of PPP, Hakim Lehri of BNC, Moheem Baloch of BNP-A, former provincial governor Amirul Mulk Mengal, Sardar Bakhtiar Domki, grandson of Nawab Bugti, and Mir Hasil Bizenjo.
AFP adds: Police contingents ringed the stadium and troops were standing by on alert, witnesses said.
“It is a big tragedy. Bugti has become a legend,” 22-year-old clan member Dad Mohammad said. “He fought for the rights of ethnic Baloch. He has set a course for the Balochs — it is now up to the people,” said another tribesman.
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More and more Pakistani’s taking the time to write to newspapers to condemn the murder
http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/29/letted.htm
Operation in Balochistan
I FULLY endorse Dawn’s editorial ‘Tragedy with a price’ (Aug 28). As a nation we should awaken to the path our leaders are following to ensure the writ of government with fierce and foul means. Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killing has again revealed the government’s inability to handle matters at home through talks and a sensible approach.
We should bow our heads in shame. What Bugti was fighting for was the rights of his people over the abundant natural resources of their province. In the past we have lost more than half our country (Bangladesh), killed great leaders like Bhutto, called national heroes such as Dr A.Q. Khan traitors and allowed the theft of water by some provinces; all this to ensure the writ of the government.
N. H. BALOCH
Karachi
**(II) **
NAWAB Akbar Bugti’s sudden killing has raised many questions about the possible law and order situation in Balochistan. The government could have avoided his killing, as it knew that Mr Bugti had been spotted on the site where the operation was taking place. It is true that the military was attacked from that place, yet the government should have shown more restraint. In my opinion, this killing may intensify the crisis. The government badly needs to gain support of strong political and nationalist opinion now in the province. I hope that the government will review its strategy in the province and will avoid the use of force as a part of its strategy.
ZEESHAN AHMAD
Lahore
**(III) **
THE news of Akbar Bugti’s death was received with shock and sorrow throughout the country. It is very sad that his life had to end in a tragic way. As details come through about the four day-long intense operation against the Bugti and Marri tribesmen in Kohlu, I feel compelled to ask our military think tanks: wasn’t there another way of neutralising the so called rogue elements. Even those who were not supportive of the late Baloch leader’s views agree that long-term effects of Akbar Bugti’s death will be felt not only in Baluchistan but throughout the country.
Many will view this operation in the context of President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s comments made on television in January this year which were aimed at the Baloch nationalists. The president had said: “This is not the 1970s, we will not follow them up into the mountains, this time they won’t know what hit them.”
It is a sad day in the history of Pakistan. The incident has badly dented our already deteriorating international image and will hinder us from the path of democratic norms. Who will take charge and change the course?
S. NAVEED AHMED
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
Originally Posted by Reza Pahlavi
So now you are quoting from the same paper you dismissed just minutes ago, and I quote an unheard of and bizarre paper. 
Inconsistency as well as hypocrisy and double standards.
Orignially posted by Infiniti
A true hypocrite, i.e. you.
You are right, he does not know what he is talking about 
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
Whats sad is that this Sardar jee, who should have been remembered for the tyrant and hypocrit that he was, will now be remembered as a hero and a martyr.
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
As predicted.
**Six Marri commanders, 2000 Baloch supporters surrender to government **
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Even international media is joining Pakistani media in saying this will make the situation even worse for Pakistan
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1449003,00.html
How the Death of a Leader Creates a Bigger Problem for Pakistan
The aftermath of killing tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti exposes Musharraf’s difficulties in trying to control the country’s volatile regions
**When Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a military operation in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province on Saturday, Pakistan’s security forces may have thought they were ridding themselves of a particularly annoying problem that has plagued Islamabad for the past two years. As it turns out, they only made things worse. **
Bugti, 79, was one of three Baluch tribal leaders leading an armed uprising against the central government that has seen more than 400 officials and military personnel dead in recent months. The violence has led to the displacement of thousands of ethnic Baluch, the interruption of vital gas supplies (Pakistan’s principal gas pipeline runs through the center of the province), and the diversion of President Pervez Musharraf’s already overstretched army. The fight is about resources. The province of Baluchistan, which is rich in oil and gas, is also home to a fiercely independent and distinct ethnic group that spans parts of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. The largely impoverished Baluch see little benefit from those resources, and Bugti had long demanded royalties from the central government for development of the neglected region.
But Bugti was not simply the leader of a 300,000-strong tribe of alienated Baluch. He was also a former provincial governor, a former chief minister and the moderate leader of a well-recognized political party. **Not since the Supreme Court-ordered hanging of former Prime Minister and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto following a military coup in 1977 has such a mainstream political leader been killed at the behest of the Pakistani government. As the spontaneous riots spreading across the country can attest, Bugti was not just a local, or even a Baluch hero, but a nationally respected politician whose cause resonated throughout the country. **
In using force to take out the small problem of an avowedly secular and anti-Taliban insurgent group (with reasonable demands, if not reasonable means), the military-led government of President Pervez Musharraf may find that it has simply highlighted the larger issue of military rule on the day before Musharraf’s hand-picked Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz faces a vote of no-confidence in Parliament. **As an editorial in Dawn, a highly respected English-language newspaper points out, Bugti’s death will only lead to a sharp deterioration in the already heated government-opposition relations: “It doesn’t do the state any good to be remembered as an executioner of former prime ministers and chief ministers.” **
Pakistani security forces may have thought that in killing Bugti they could curtail growing anti-government sentiment in Baluch areas indifferent to his cause. Instead, many Baluch will see his death as proof that the federal government will never give them the fair treatment they feel they are owed. Around 500 people have been detained in riots throughout the province, and schools have been ordered closed for three days in anticipation of more unrest. Train service in and out of the area has been restricted. More alarmingly, Baluch protestors in Quetta, the provincial capital, and Karachi, the capital of neighboring Sindh province, have been targeting Punjabi-owned properties and businesses, exacerbating already volatile ethnic divisions throughout country. Large segments of Pakistan’s army come from Punjab, home to the nation’s capital, Islamabad, and other groups in Pakistan often resent Punjabis for the perceived benefits of government preference.
A coalition of opposition groups, the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), has called the attack on Bugti a tragedy, saying that General Musharraf’s choice of a military operation over dialogue only proves that the military dictator has become a security risk for the country. Not only that, says Samina Ahmed, South Asia Director of the International Crisis Group, the government’s military response to the question of states’ rights comes at a very delicate moment. For the past several years, Musharraf has been struggling to bring the historically autonomous Federally Administered Tribal Areas under central control. The notoriously lawless region, running along the mountainous border with Afghanistan, is said to shelter Taliban and al-Qaeda leadership and militant training camps, though the Pakistani government denies this. Local tribal leaders have been fiercely resistant to calls to join the Pakistani federation; Bugti’s death and the accompanying military action will only strengthen that resolve. At an ARD press conference Sunday attended by Pakistani journalists, a member of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N party said: “Bullets don’t solve problems; they create problems,” pointing out that a “martyred” leader will only strengthen the insurgency’s cause. Bugti was prepared for just that. This past May Bugti spoke with TIME by satellite phone from the mountain refuge that eventually became his tomb. “It’s better to die — as the Americans say — with your spurs on,” he said. “Instead of a slow death in bed, I’d rather death come to me while I’m fighting for a purpose.” Bugti got his wish. And President Musharraf now has a much bigger problem on his hands.
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
i listiend nawab bugti was first person in pakistan who passed CSS exam
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First batch. Pakistan desperately needed civil servants. he didn't serve as a civil servant though. went back to 'serve' his people.
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I am not great fan of Bugti but, its a shame for present government to act like this.
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You are right, but what can we expect of a dictator?
More and more condemnation of this murder appears everyday:
The killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, president of the Jamhoori Watan Party, in a military operation has cast a pall of gloom. Echoes of history amplify the tragic significance of this moment. Like the case of the East Pakistan crisis in 1971, an essentially political problem has been dealt with military means. Once again the attempt to establish the writ of the state may have unleashed forces that could eventually further weaken it. Clearly the creation of a martyr has intensified Baloch sentiment for greater provincial autonomy. The need for understanding the nature of nationalism and the imperative of urgently granting genuine autonomy to all provinces in order to strengthen the state cannot be overstated.
cont…
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006\08\30\story_30-8-2006_pg3_2
Re: baloch burned Pakistani flag
i am not suppoerter of feudalism or sardari system, i dont like some aspects of bugti politics but…if i capare the bugti and pakistan army…i support bugti
u think i should support a tyrant army killer of million bengalis, thousands of sindhis, urdu speaking people and balochs…the rapist army…raped thousands of bengali women, recent case was a rape of a sindhi dr shazia by captain hamad…
suppoerter ..infact creator of talban, supoerter of terrorist osama, headed by yahiya, ayub, zia, mushraf all tyants and sycophants of america, angrezoon ke joote chaatne wali, pak army which killed z a bhutto, murtaza and shahnawaz bhutto, now bugti…whose existance is a reason of all terrorist activities in pakistan, india…us, uk…just take the name and u will find our mujahid army involvement…
still u are asking evidence…i was also hoping our army will learn lesson from 1971…but would that! indra gandhi had finshed this barbaric regime …but …wait for a day when oppresed people will wipe out illicit army
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i am not suppoerter of feudalism or sardari system, i dont like some aspects of bugti politics but…if i capare the bugti and pakistan army…i support bugti
u think i should support a tyrant army killer of million bengalis, thousands of sindhis, urdu speaking people and balochs…the rapist army…raped thousands of bengali women, recent case was a rape of a sindhi dr shazia by captain hamad…
suppoerter ..infact creator of talban, supoerter of terrorist osama, headed by yahiya, ayub, zia, mushraf all tyants and sycophants of america, angrezoon ke joote chaatne wali, pak army which killed z a bhutto, murtaza and shahnawaz bhutto, now bugti…whose existance is a reason of all terrorist activities in pakistan, india…us, uk…just take the name and u will find our mujahid army involvement…
so whom should i support?
still u are asking evidence…i was also hoping our army will learn lesson from 1971…but would that! indra gandhi had finshed this barbaric regime …but …wait for a day when oppresed people will wipe out illicit army..
to my bugti was a freedomfighter who did not bow infront of the shaitaans but rendered his life for his baoch watan.
Re: Nawab Akbar Bugti Killed (Merged)
[quote=“Zakk”]
And a contrasting article
To our politicians: Bugti or Pakistan?
…bugti
midayee maaf kayaas khaaliq badle khoon je
his sins has been wahsed off after his murder
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He was also probably amongst the first people in Pakistan to start murdering at the age of 12.
Tribesmen disallow Bugti’s funeral prayers in Dera Bugti
Tribesmen disallow Bugti’s funeral prayers in Dera Bugti
LAHORE: A 21-member reconciliation committee of the Bugti tribe has allowed the burial of late Nawab Akbar Bugti in Dera Bugti, but it has refused to allow Bugti’s funeral prayers in his hometown, Geo television reported.
… The committee said that no one from Dera Bugti would be allowed to attend Bugti’s funeral, adding that only two members of the Bugti family would be allowed to attend the burial. daily times monitor
Was he that popular that people in his home town now treat him like a dog?
Re: Tribesmen disallow Bugti’s funeral prayers in Dera Bugti
Get real
Govt/agents lotas who have been paid off, compared to the thousands and thousands who attended protests, riots, etc
U need to live in Pakistan to understand what goes on. If the govt handed the body back, his funeral in his hometown would be attended by hundreds of thousands,part of the reason they don;t want to hand it back