ISLAMABAD: The younger son of late Nawab Akbar Bugti, Jamil Bugti, on Sunday feared that a red-carpet welcome might be accorded to former military ruler and 'killer' of his father, Pervez Musharraf, on his return late this month.
Jamil, who is fighting a legal battle for the accountability of those behind what he called the assassination of his over 80-year-old father killed in a Kohlu cave attack in August 2006, has no hopes Musharraf would be nabbed on his homecoming despite the Balochistan High Court orders.
"When a dictator, who sent packing an elected government, abrogated the Constitution and played with the state institutions to perpetuate his despotic rule, is presented a guard of honour on his exit, can also be welcomed in a similar style," Jamil said when The News (a local newspaper) approached him for a comment on Musharraf's planned return to Pakistan.
Asked why he believed so, Jamil said the reasons were obvious. Musharraf was sent home after being given a guard of honour by the incumbent government as this government came into being under the notorious NRO.
Jamil, who lives either in Quetta or Karachi, said the NRO-beneficiaries lacked the moral courage and political will to act on merit against Musharraf. "The military dictator paved their way to Pakistan and to power and in quid pro quo, he was sent abroad untouched: never to be held accountable for his misdeeds," he alleged.
Bugti's son charged he expected no relief from a coterie of opportunists (rulers), who were in the habit of ridiculing the Supreme Court judgments and orders almost every day. He continued Musharraf was larger than Pakistan's law and the state institutions because he hailed from a peculiar background and this was his unmatched advantage over other fellow countrymen.
"Musharraf can't be held accountable, as those who are far lesser in stature are still roaming free such as Aftab Sherpao, Awais Ghani and Nowsherwani," he noted. Jamil, in his application to the police, had nominated Musharraf on the top in the list of those who for one reason or the other were responsible for the killing of his father.
The BHC ordered issuance of arrest warrants of Musharraf through Interpol and action against others, nominated in the FIR. Jamil said despite clear orders by the Balochistan High Court, no progress was made so far in arresting Sherpao, Nowsherwani, who are already in Pakistan what to talk of Musharraf.
Keeping in view the attitude of the so-called democratic government, Jamil said he had no hope the killers of his father would ever be arrested and prosecuted for their crime. "Should a person speaking for his people's rights and increase in rent of his land from where gas was being processed be killed this way in a military action," he wondered and claimed his father was a torch-bearer of the rights of Balochistan.
Courtesy: The News
