QUETTA: Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, the son of late Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, filed an application with an anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Wednesday, seeking to exhume the body of Akbar Bugti to ensure that it was his father who was buried after he was killed in the mountains of Dera Bugti district during a military crackdown on Aug 26, 2006.
In his application, Nawabzada Bugti asked the court to order that a DNA test be conducted of the body by an international forensics team after the exhumation. “None of my family members were present in Dera Bugti during his burial.”
Bugti said he cannot go to Dera Bugti himself to collect any evidence, and therefore demands that a DNA test be conducted of the body. In a separate application, Nawabzada Bugti requested the court to summon the members of a parliamentary committee who had met Akbar Bugti following the violence in Dera Bugti in March 2005 in which dozens were killed.
Members of the parliamentary committee including Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Mushahid Hussain Syed, Sherry Rehman, Sardar Yaqub Nasir, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani and others should be called to record their statements before the court regarding Akbar Bugti’s killing, said the application.
The court accepted Nawabzada Bugti’s applicatins and fixed Dec 30 as the date for next hearing. The ATC also reserved judgment with regards to the application filed by former federal minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and former provincial home minister Shoaib Nausherwani seeking their acquittal in the Akbar Bugti murder case.
