ISLAMABAD: Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, who is fighting a legal battle for trial of killers of his father Nawab Akbar Bugti, on Monday questioned what message the rulers had sent to people of Balochistan by induction of Jam Muhammad Yousaf in the federal cabinet.
Jam Yousaf is named in the FIR Jamil Bugti filed about two years back after pushing hard for several years, following the killing of his father.
He (Jam) was Balochistan’s Chief Minister during the regime of General Pervez Musharraf when in August 2006, in a cave attack, the former Governor Akbar Bugti was killed, triggering what is believed to be the severest ever anti-Islamabad feeling, mostly in Baloch-inhabited areas of the province.
Lawmakers of the trouble-hit province insist on the floor of the legislatures that the wave of insurgency has intensified ever since the assassination of the veteran Baloch politician and also charge the present PPP-led civilian dispensation has failed to alleviate Balochistan’s seething problems rather the situation further deteriorated.
About the maiden speech of newly-elected prime minister on Friday, wherein he talked of mitigating sufferings of the people of Balochistan, he said just two days after his statement on the floor of the National Assembly, Jam Yousaf was made a minister.
Talking to The News from Quetta, Jamil Bugti said one should not wonder if the ‘hollow rulers’ tomorrow install Jam Yousaf as next prime minister of Pakistan, as their agenda was not akin to the harsh ground realities in the province.
The PML-Q senior leader MNA Jam Yousaf, who stayed abroad for almost four years, recently returned and straight away distanced himself from the 2006 action in Kohlu, which saw the death of Nawab Bugti. He took part in general election in 2008 and was elected an MNA from Lasbela. Jamil Bugti rejected his contention and said how come a chief minister of a province was not aware of what was happening under his rule.
