Akbar Bugti case: Govt to present progress report on Musharraf’s extradition
The court asked for a report after the government consistently failed to extradite Musharraf from the UK and present him before the bench. Shakil Hadi, counsel for the slain Baloch nationalist leader is of the view that the request can be made under Pakistan’s extradition act. He has alleged that the federal and provincial governments are pressuring Bugti’s son and other family members to stop pursuing the case against Musharraf and six co-accused.
Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, elder son of the former Balochistan governor and chief minister, who was killed in a military operation in 2006, petitioned the court after Musharraf was forced to step down three years later, to take up the murder case of his deceased father.
“False cases are being instituted against Jamil Bugti and his close relatives by the federal and provincial governments to force them to give up the case proceedings, Hadi told The Express Tribune on Monday. Last month’s raid by the Frontier Corps (FC) and the police at the residences of Jamil Bugti and his brother- in-law Humayun Marri in Quetta, was conducted to harass the petitioner and his family, Hadi contended. The police had claimed to recover a huge cache of heavy arms and ammunition. However, both Baloch nationalist leaders had rejected the claim and termed the raid an act of political victimisation.
Hadi pointed out that no case was registered against the two leaders by the police after the raid. “Why did the government not register a case against Bugti and Marri for illegal possession of arms and ammunition?” he questioned. “They have, however, instituted a case against the federal and provincial governments for sending the FC and the police to harass them.”
Published in The Express Tribune, September 13th, 2011.
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