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Bugti was killed by chemical weapons, blame Nationalist leaders
Govt. concealed facts behind death by not giving body to family:Haar Beyar Mair

QUETTA, September 01(inp): Eminent Baloch nationalist leader Haar Beyar Marri alleged that chief of the Jamhoori Watan Party late Nawab Akbar Bugti and his associates were assassinated through ruthless bombing and the chemical weapons. Haar Beyar Marri, a close associate of late Bugti, referred to the commando operation in Kohlu, said that the entire area stretching over 25 kilometers is completely deserted and there was no cave in the area where, according to the government functionaries, operation took place. "Neither there was any cave in the area nor Akbar Bugti and his associates were hiding in the cave, since he was on the run", he said in a statement issued Friday.
The Baloch nationalist leader blamed that Akbar Bugti and his  associates have been killed through the use chemical weapons and later the cave was blown up by placing the bodies there. He continued that Mr. Bugti, since he was in the hiding never used to stay at one place and he never took refuge in any cave during this period. Meanwhile, Family members of Nawab Akbar Bugti also leveled similar allegations that security forces had wiped him out though the chemical weapons and was buried without handing over the body to his legal  heirs,
just to cover up which led to his assassination. Talking to a private TV channel his son of the Baloch nationalist leader, Jamil Akbar Bugti and his son-in-law, Senator Agha Shahid Bugti, Friday charged that the government functionaries did not allow the late Bugti's family members to attend his burial ritual. "The body was brought in a sealed coffin and no one was allowed to see, which aroused suspicious, weather his body was present inside the coffin or not", they noted. Senator Shahid Bugti said security forces have occupied the entire Dera
Bugti area and family members of Nawab Akbar were not allowed to enterin the town. To a question, Jamil Bugti said the members of his family have not yet devise any strategy to deal with aftermath of the bloody incident, adding a good number of people were arriving for expressing condolences."We will sort out a strategy as soon as situation come to normal after consulting other family members and associates", he remarked.

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