Musharraf regime used chemical weapons to eliminate Nawab Bugti, says son

Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, the son of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has claimed that Musharraf regime used chemical weapons to eliminate his father.

Karachi, June 26 : Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, the son of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has claimed that Musharraf regime used chemical weapons to eliminate his father.

Criticising the establishment's policy towards the Baloch population, Jamil said they were being treated as slaves.

He was speaking at a conference attended by Baloch intellectuals, writers, journalists, advocates, political and student leaders representing different schools of thought.

The theme of the conference was 'Karachi Baloch: Social Economic Problems'.

Jamil also criticised the policies of the US and claimed that sophisticated arms supplied by it to Pakistan were being used to killi innocent Balochis.

Thousands of people had been killed, injured and more than 8,000 had been kidnapped, confined illegally or abducted by the government's secret agencies but the US has termed the matter as internal situation of the country, he added.

He also said the establishment was usurping the oil and gas reserves, and the coastal resources of the province.

The Balochs would never accept minority status in their own land and would fight for their due rights; The Dawn quoted him, as saying.

Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was killed in a massive military operation in the Bhambore Hills, an area located between the cities of Kohlu and Dera Bugti on August 26, 2006.

Seventy-nine-year-old Bugti, who was also the president of the Jamhoori Watan Party and the driving force behind the anti-government rebellion in Balochistan, was brought down in an army operation that targeted 50 to 80 of his closest family members and top commanders.

The Pakistan Government is said to have buried his decomposed body in secrecy and under tight security in his ancestral town of Dera Bugti.

ANI