August 28, 2006	Monday	Sha'aban 3, 1427

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LAHORE, Aug 27: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairperson Asma Jehangir has said that killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti has threatened the integrity and solidarity of the country and the “false portrayal of the situation in Balochistan by official propagandists rang a familiar note of Bangladesh fiasco.”

Commenting on the killing of the prominent Baloch tribal chief, in a statement issued here on Sunday, the HRCP chairperson said that the worst fears and predictions of the commission had come true.

She said that the military establishment had made their intentions of pursuing, hunting and killing Akbar Bugti and other Baloch nationlists quite clear.

By delaying the disclosure of the news of the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, she said, the government had only added to its guilt.

She hoped that that the Bugti tribe’s desire to give their departed chief a burial in keeping with their traditions would not be frustrated.

She called upon the political forces and the civil society to protect and preserve the evidence of foul play in the killing of Akbar Bugti so that those responsible could be brought before the public for trial at an appropriate moment. “IT was necessary in view of absence of any neutral and independent mechanism to investigate killings.”