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Akbar Bugti Killed | Bughtis announce end of Sardari system

Nawab Akbar Bugti has been killed. All the governments claims are complete Bull&hit.

Nawab's watch and specs dont have a scratch on em.

All these stories from Durrani, Shaukat Aziz and other bunch of thugs are fabricated
 
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Friday, September 01, 2006javascript:; http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2006\09\01\story_1-9-2006_pg7_14

By Malik Siraj Akbar

QUETTA: Life began returning to normal in most parts of Balochistan on Thursday after a four-day spell of protests against the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Traffic resumed on most roads in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan, and shops reopened.

People travelled to Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Taftan as roads linking Balochistan to other provinces were opened. However the situation remained tense in Baloch-dominated parts of Quetta such as areas surrounding Sariab Road, Brewery Road and Double Road remained tense. Groups of young protestors forced shopkeepers to close their shops and blocked roads. There were no local buses on these roads.
 
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However the situation remained tense in Baloch-dominated parts of Quetta such as areas surrounding Sariab Road, Brewery Road and Double Road remained tense. Groups of young protestors forced shopkeepers to close their shops and blocked roads. There were no local buses on these roads.

Surely this is not normal.

At best it could be written that the situation is limping back to normal.
 
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Balochistan's total population is little over 7 million, merely a quarter of a million support Bughti.
Life IS getting back to normal in major parts of the province. ;)
 
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QUETTA, Aug 31: The situation in Quetta and most of the towns of Balochistan remained calm on Thursday amid tight security but some incidents of violence were reported in Khuzdar, Panjgur and Tump areas.

Markets and business establishments opened in the provincial capital after five days of strikes.

The road link between Quetta and the rest of the country was restored. Local busses and other traffic plied on the roads.

Passenger coaches, buses and minibuses left for Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad Peshawar and other cities in the morning.

Business activities also resumed in Sariab, Sabzal Road, Brewery Road, Hudda and Spiny Road areas.

Heavy rush was witnessed in the markets where people bought vegetables, meet, chicken and other necessary items in large quantities because of the strike called by the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy for Friday and supported by all opposition parties.

However, complete strike was observed in Khuzdar till noon, most of the shops in the town opened later.

A group of people attacked a diesel engine workshop in the evening and set it on fire. The workshop was gutted. Police arrested eight people for the attack.

Political parties claim that police have arrested over 100 political workers and students during the past four days in Khuzdar.

Protest also continued in Tump town in Makran against the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Protesters torched the official residence of a judicial magistrate and a vehicle of the Water and Power Development Authority.

In Panjgur, a mob attacked and torched the offices of the agriculture and Zakat departments. A tractor was also set on fire.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/01/top4.htm
 
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AS if the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti was not enough of a cause for shock and grief, the retrieval of the body itself has turned into a major issue. By taking a media team to the cave in the Kohlu area where the Bugti chief was killed, the government has attempted to make things transparent. Part of the body is said to be visible, but it is apparently deep inside the collapsed cave, whose roof may give in because the explosion that reportedly killed the nawab and others weakened the L-shaped cave’s structure. There are explosives, too, which could go off, killing more people. Because of the mountainous nature of the terrain, earth-moving machinery cannot reach the spot, so the retrieval process is being done manually, and the job, according to the government, could take as much as a week. Unfortunately, the distrust between the government and the angry Bugti family is making matters worse. The authorities want his sons to go to Kohlu to see things for themselves, but the sons have refused, saying they are being threatened. Given the way the intelligence agencies operate, one should not be surprised if the Bugti sons feel threatened. This kind of attitude will only boomerang on the government.

Already, a wave of anger is sweeping Balochistan and other parts of the country over the killing, and any further delay in the recovery of the body and burial will only inflame popular passions. The late nawab’s family must also be incensed over the government’s insistence that only two family members should attend the last rites — a condition the government says the rival Bugti sub-tribe has imposed. Since it is obviously finding it difficult to speak to the late sardar’s family, the government could perhaps secure the services of some truly neutral persons who could help remove misunderstandings between the two sides. The body must be recovered at the earliest, without counting too much on the patience of the bereaved family. (According to latest information, the body of Nawab Akbar Bugti has been recovered.)

http://dawn.com/2006/09/01/ed.htm#3
 
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Friday, 01 September , 2006, 09:59

Islamabad: Without naming any nation, Pakistan has said a "neighbouring country" had supplied a large quantity of ammunition and money to the slain Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti for his campaign against the government.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Khan Niazi told the National Assembly that a "huge quantity of ammunition and currency" had been found from the cave in which Bugti was killed on August 26, 2006 during a Pakistan Army operation.

The munitions and money were "provided by our neighbouring country to Akbar Bugti via Kabul" and Bugti used the ammunition against security forces and national assets through his 'frari' (fugitive) camps, Niazi said.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan too spoke about the involvement of an "external hand" in the campaign by Baloch nationalists.
"Bugti was not fighting for public interest but he was involved in harming the country and innocent people," said Niazi, a defector from former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party who became a loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf. Niazi accused the Baloch leader of involvement in "subversive activities including destroying national assets, gas pipelines and railway lines besides the killing of innocent people and security forces personnel".

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14281659
 
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Why are the gods angry with us?



By Ayaz Amir


THE golden bird bearing happy tidings on its wings seems to have forsaken our skies. When was the last time we heard some good news? When was the last time we had reason to be happy and proud, the last time we did not curse our fate?

Surely there is something wrong here. We may have sinned. No, we have sinned. Of this there should be no doubt. The gallery of rogues, fools or charlatans who have been our rulers and presided over our wayward destiny, we have endured and suffered without resisting too much, in fact, on most occasions, not resisting at all.

We did not feel the pain we should have felt when the guardians of the state, driven by God knows what notions of political cleansing, settled accounts with the people of East Pakistan. We did not cry out against the inhumanity of it. When the deed was done and East Pakistan had gone its own way, we did not even grieve the way we should have. This was one death, the death of Jinnah’s Pakistan, over which no funeral prayers were offered.

But we have paid for our sins. Going around in circles, still without a sense of direction after all these years, is heavy enough punishment. Why then does the golden bird keep avoiding our skies?

One tragedy like that of East Pakistan should be enough for any country or nation, enough of a lesson in what should be done and what was best avoided. It should have taught us once for all the futility of relying on force alone — important as force is in human affairs — to build a nation. The Pakistan left diminished by the tragedy of 1971 should have taken to heart the lesson that nations, disparate though many of their elements may be, are forged from a sense of common purpose and common destiny.

In other words, if a nation is being forged out of a diversity of race, language, culture and different levels of economic development, such as is the case with Pakistan, it takes little wizardry to see that the overriding emphasis must be on consensus-building. So that all the elements of diversity, while retaining their uniqueness and hence their beauty, can coalesce into a higher unity. (Something like the United States of America, if that is not too far-fetched an analogy.)

Alas, our collective abilities were not up to the task. Where consensus was needed, almost a conscious effort was made to sow distrust and dissension. Instead of things being drawn together, they were pushed further apart. All the laws of reason were violated. From our early days that seemed obvious enough. But the sum total of our national genius also ended up abusing Islam, insisting that since Islam was the basis of our nationhood, no other material was required for nation-building.

If only this were so. When Pakistan’s eastern army laid down its arms in Dhaka’s Race Course Ground in December 1971 this notion — that Islam alone was a sufficient bond to keep Pakistan together — was also buried. (The two nation theory is a separate issue.) Islam did not prevent the people of East Pakistan from seeking liberation from what they perceived to be West Pakistani bondage.

So we should have realized that for a country such as Pakistan, military rule with its self-serving centralism is almost a prelude to disaster, a recipe for collective self-immolation. For almost by definition concentration of power at the centre, takes away something from the periphery, resulting in disaffection.

Two bouts of military rule, Ayub Khan’s and Yahya’s, disastrous in their own way, should have been enough for us. But our cup of sorrow had not filled. So we received the gift of two more: eleven years of Gen Zia, from the effects of which Pakistan has yet to recover, and now seven years of Gen Musharraf with no sign yet of his early departure.

Ayub’s policies served to divide East and West Pakistan. Now we are witnessing another kind of polarisation: between the people and state institutions, on the one hand, and between the centre and the smaller provinces, on the other. As an ex-army man I take no pride in the fact that during these seven years the army has been criticized like never before, the perks and privileges of senior ranks the butt of everyday conversation. How can this be good for military morale?

The American connection pushed the army into an unpopular intervention in Waziristan. Meeting stiff resistance, the army, mercifully, is having second thoughts about that enterprise. But there has been no such luck in Balochistan where shortsightedness and arrogance, the inevitable consequences of military rule, tipped the scales in favour of a military operation against Nawab Mohammad Akbar Khan Bugti.

Whether he was killed by a missile fired from a helicopter gunship or the cave he was in collapsed because of a “mysterious” explosion is now immaterial. What is important is that he is dead at the hands of the army and has become a hero for the people of Balochistan.

The Baloch have a long history of grievance against the Pakistani centre. Their land is rich in minerals but remains the poorest of Pakistan’s provinces. Gas from Balochistan has kept kitchen fires burning in other parts of Pakistan for the last 50 years. But the Baloch feel they have not received a fair deal.

This history has given rise to an embittered culture of resistance. In Balochistan a hero is someone who stands up to central authority, someone like Sardar Nauroz Khan who took to the mountains in the 1950s but was persuaded to come down and then hanged despite a promise of safe conduct, an incident which rankles in Baloch memory and is still quoted as an example of ‘central’ perfidy.

To this narrative of heroic resistance is now added a chapter more smouldering and heavy in symbolism than any other, centred on a defiant Baloch chieftain, already a legend in his lifetime, taking to the mountains when he was almost 80 and, fighting to the last, dying at the hands of the Pakistan army.

Possessed of a personality at once flamboyant and commanding, Nawab Akbar Khan was in any case a larger-than-life figure, the centre of attention wherever he happened to be. But in death he has attained a status far greater than anything he might have achieved in his lifetime. For generations to come he will be considered as one of the leading symbols of Baloch resistance.

Which is not a little ironic given the fact that among the three Baloch sardars considered anathema by central authority — the other two being Nawab Khair Bux Marri and Sardar Attaullah Mengal — Nawab Akbar Khan was the only one whose politics lay squarely within the ambit of Pakistan. Marri and Mengal make no bones about their conviction that Pakistan is a failed enterprise from which they can expect no justice or fair play. Right until the end Nawab Akbar Khan spoke a different discourse.

But we seem to have a talent for turning moderates into extremists. The Awami League was very much a centrist, mainstream party in Pakistani politics. Yet a gathering sense of deprivation managed to transform it into the standard-bearer of separatism. To begin with, Nawab Akbar Khan was willing to settle matters politically, through dialogue. But then attitudes hardened on both sides — one of his faults being that he couldn’t bend, much less grovel — and so he rode off into the mountains, on the back of a camel, there eventually to embrace a Baloch version of immortality.

He had his faults. Which mortal doesn’t? But just as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s shortcomings (and he had many) stand eclipsed and largely forgotten by the manner in which he looked death in the face, Nawab Akbar Khan’s shortcomings stand erased at the bar of martyrdom.

For it is as a martyr or shaheed — someone dying for whatever he considered to be the path of honour, justice and freedom — is how he will be remembered by the Baloch and even by most Pakistanis with any spirit in them.

Nothing more becomes a man than the way he faces death. Nawab Akbar Khan was fearless in life and fearless in death. These lines from Julius Caesar could serve as his epitaph:

Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/ayaz/ayaz.htm

There are problems with Ayaz Amir's links as one would find in the thread "India is putting the squeeze on General Musharraf".

Therefore, for those who wish to check, please do so now.

Is Ayaz Amir a Balochi?

The people had met in his house the other day after the Bugti was killed and now he has written this article.

The sentiments are very strong I must say and he seems to be real angry.
 
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Nawab Akbar Bugti has been killed. All the governments claims are complete Bull&hit.

Nawab's watch and specs dont have a scratch on em.

All these stories from Durrani, Shaukat Aziz and other bunch of thugs are fabricated

To me and millions of other Pakistan's he'll remain a traitor and a seperatist who relied on foreign support to undermine national security and stablity! :rolleyes:
 
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Friday, 01 September , 2006, 09:59

Islamabad: Without naming any nation, Pakistan has said a "neighbouring country" had supplied a large quantity of ammunition and money to the slain Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti for his campaign against the government.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Khan Niazi told the National Assembly that a "huge quantity of ammunition and currency" had been found from the cave in which Bugti was killed on August 26, 2006 during a Pakistan Army operation.

The munitions and money were "provided by our neighbouring country to Akbar Bugti via Kabul" and Bugti used the ammunition against security forces and national assets through his 'frari' (fugitive) camps, Niazi said.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan too spoke about the involvement of an "external hand" in the campaign by Baloch nationalists.
"Bugti was not fighting for public interest but he was involved in harming the country and innocent people," said Niazi, a defector from former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party who became a loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf. Niazi accused the Baloch leader of involvement in "subversive activities including destroying national assets, gas pipelines and railway lines besides the killing of innocent people and security forces personnel".

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14281659

Neo.
AsSalam o Alaikum.
At the expense of being labelled a flamer and a heretic, allow me to say that we as a nation are people worshippers. Bhutto, Mr Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan, Wali Khan, And Nawab Bugti to name a few are our idols and anything against them would incur the wrathof the masses. Especially when they die, they become even bigger Gods and people kill in their name. Na Auzo Billah. People , my brothers are people. I liked Bugti as a man, but I think that Sardars and Waderas of all ilk are the scurge of Pakistan, they are the Brahmins who can not tolerate the shadow of any commoner to fall on their bodies. The sooner we get rid of them, the better. However, it should be admitted freely that we have availed of the property of the baluch people without any of its fruits reaching them for many decades.. To the best of my knowledge Quetta was without Gas till 80s. Why? these are the unfortunate people who have had the worst of the bargain. The royalty for the gas should be spent on the uplift of the province. Once people see what happens when their Sardars go, they will fall head over heel to get rid of their Sardars and Waderas. People are afraid of who will fill the vacuum once the Sardars go. The Government must make a massive effort to restore the confidence of the people. Whether this Government is able to do it or not -------- Somehow I have my doubts.
Araz
 
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He managed to lead the country well thru most turbulent times we ever faced and put it back on track!
Although I don't support military rule I have to give credit to this great man for his achievements, one day we'll realise that he's one of the greatest leaders we've ever had!
 
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Neo,

Here is something on foreign involvement which may surprise you.

Foreign involvement'

Without naming any country, he also accuses the armed Baloch militants of playing into foreign hands.

Senior officials in the security forces say they grew alarmed when intelligence agencies found more than one foreign country was involved in the province's affairs.

The countries were said to be opposed to Gwadar becoming a major trading port for central Asian nations and China.

One official said the biggest shock came when the interrogation of a group of militants revealed they had been trained in a friendly Gulf country, which allegedly feared it could lose its status as the region's biggest trading port.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5289910.stm


Now which country could that be?

I am also giving a Paste of the BBC thingummy lest it vanishes.

Last Updated: Saturday, 26 August 2006, 20:23 GMT 21:23 UK
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Pakistan's battle over Balochistan
Zaffar Abbas

By Zaffar Abbas
BBC News, Islamabad
 
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Neo.
AsSalam o Alaikum.
At the expense of being labelled a flamer and a heretic, allow me to say that we as a nation are people worshippers. Bhutto, Mr Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan, Wali Khan, And Nawab Bugti to name a few are our idols and anything against them would incur the wrathof the masses. Especially when they die, they become even bigger Gods and people kill in their name. Na Auzo Billah. People , my brothers are people. I liked Bugti as a man, but I think that Sardars and Waderas of all ilk are the scurge of Pakistan, they are the Brahmins who can not tolerate the shadow of any commoner to fall on their bodies. The sooner we get rid of them, the better. However, it should be admitted freely that we have availed of the property of the baluch people without any of its fruits reaching them for many decades.. To the best of my knowledge Quetta was without Gas till 80s. Why? these are the unfortunate people who have had the worst of the bargain. The royalty for the gas should be spent on the uplift of the province. Once people see what happens when their Sardars go, they will fall head over heel to get rid of their Sardars and Waderas. People are afraid of who will fill the vacuum once the Sardars go. The Government must make a massive effort to restore the confidence of the people. Whether this Government is able to do it or not -------- Somehow I have my doubts.
Araz

W'alaikum assalam Araz, great post!
I agree that goverment has made mistakes by ignoring the Balochis for decades and denying them fruits of their own soil.
But the phenomenon is not unique, its seen all over the world including the west.
Eurpe, The States, Australia and even Japan first developped the hardcore economic zones before the comon man could be lifted out of poverty, its all basic economy.

Mush's government is made unprecedented efforts to develop Balochistan, guess who's been trying to halt the progress and sabbotage major projects.

Within ten years, Balochistan will become the fastest developping province of Pakistan, maybe the best of its kind in the region.

I have faith in my government. :flag:
 
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Neo,

Here is something on foreign involvement which may surprise you.




Now which country could that be?

I am also giving a Paste of the BBC thingummy lest it vanishes.

Last Updated: Saturday, 26 August 2006, 20:23 GMT 21:23 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version
Pakistan's battle over Balochistan
Zaffar Abbas

By Zaffar Abbas
BBC News, Islamabad

I wouldn't be surprised if Iran had a hand in this! I never trusted them! :rolleyes:
 
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