Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case: Former CM gets bail before arrest
Jam Yousuf is being implicated over a family rivalry, says lawyer.
KARACHI:
A former chief minister of Balochistan, Jam Mir Muhammad Yousuf, was granted bail before arrest in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case here on Monday for half a million rupees.
His lawyer, Muhammad Farooq, argued before the chief justice of the Sindh High Court that Jam Yousuf has been shown as an absconder in the charge sheet that was submitted to an anti-terrorism court. He was charged with abetting the murder of the chief of the Bugti tribe.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was also a former governor and chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party. He was killed in 2006.
Nawab Bugti and Jam Yousuf belonged to two different political cults and thus have deep-rooted political differences, which is why the nawab’s heirs implicated Yousuf, his lawyer argued.
Jam Yousuf is in Dubai but wants to return to Pakistan and surrender as a law-abiding citizen and as he was not involved in any military action that culminated in the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.
The bench granted him bail for Rs0.5million for ten days starting from when he lands anywhere in Sindh.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in an operation by the military in August 2006. President Pervez Musharraf is the main accused in the case that was registered on a complaint filed by Talal Akbar Bugti, the nawab’s eldest son. His body was not handed over to the family for burial and only a wristwatch and some other belongings were turned over to them. The nawab was allegedly buried in Dera Bugti in the presence of a few officials, including the then DCO of Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, who is also on the run.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2012.
A former chief minister of Balochistan, Jam Mir Muhammad Yousuf, was granted bail before arrest in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case here on Monday for half a million rupees.
His lawyer, Muhammad Farooq, argued before the chief justice of the Sindh High Court that Jam Yousuf has been shown as an absconder in the charge sheet that was submitted to an anti-terrorism court. He was charged with abetting the murder of the chief of the Bugti tribe.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was also a former governor and chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party. He was killed in 2006.
Nawab Bugti and Jam Yousuf belonged to two different political cults and thus have deep-rooted political differences, which is why the nawab’s heirs implicated Yousuf, his lawyer argued.
Jam Yousuf is in Dubai but wants to return to Pakistan and surrender as a law-abiding citizen and as he was not involved in any military action that culminated in the death of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.
The bench granted him bail for Rs0.5million for ten days starting from when he lands anywhere in Sindh.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in an operation by the military in August 2006. President Pervez Musharraf is the main accused in the case that was registered on a complaint filed by Talal Akbar Bugti, the nawab’s eldest son. His body was not handed over to the family for burial and only a wristwatch and some other belongings were turned over to them. The nawab was allegedly buried in Dera Bugti in the presence of a few officials, including the then DCO of Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, who is also on the run.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2012.