BUGTI MURDER CASE CHALLAN IS ‘BLANK’

The Crime Branch, as expected, filed a formal challan in the Nawab Bugti Murder case with reportedly no evidence attached with the challan submitted in the Sessions Court, Kohlu. The Investigating wing of the Balochistan Police had obeyed the orders formally from the High Court and submitted the challan without mentioning that who had killed Nawab Bugti and his 32 other comrades. According to reports published in our news columns that statement of no one was recorded and attached with the challan. There is no mention that who had killed Nawab Bugti and his other comrades-in-arm. The challan specifically relied on the famous statement of Pervez Musharraf in Quetta only. The police move confirmed the common belief of the people that it is a formality and Government had no intention to implicate any one or bring them to justice. The reasons, 99 per cent of the Pakistani establishment—from A to Z—honestly believed that Nawab Bugti had been rightly targeted and killed. Nawab Bugti and other top Baloch leaders were considered trouble makers. It was the opinion of most of the Pakistani politicians, mainly Mohajirs and Punjabis who viewed Pakistani state from a very different angle. They opposed to grant any constitutional rights to Balochs and Sindhis. The Establishment is still fighting a war against the Baloch people from the past 170 years and there is no let up. The Chosen representatives of the people of Balochistan and Sindh had been complaining that they had not been treated well and their problems and issues were ignored with a specific mindset that Balochs and Sindhis are second class citizens and they have no democratic rights. The Chief Minister of Balochistan claimed that the Federal bureaucracy is flouting the orders and instructions from the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan and discriminating Balochistan in all spheres of human activities. Earlier, other Chief Ministers of Balochistan had made similar statements in the past leveling similar charges against the Federal Bureaucracy or the Establishment. Thus, there is very little chance that the Establishment will change its policy in regard to Nawab Bugti Murder case and bring the culprits to justice.