Govt plans to target Bugti’s sons: JWP

Published September 10, 2006

QUETTA, Sept 9: The Jamhoori Watan Party has accused the government of hatching a conspiracy to target the two sons of Nawab Akbar Bugti through its “Bugti tribal jiga”.

Party spokesman Amanullah Kanrani in a statement issued here on Saturday night alleged that the government planned to use the jirga to target Nawabzada Jamil Bugti and Nawabzada Talal Bugti.

He said the government had been conspiring to eliminate the Baloch political leadership struggling for rights of the Baloch people.

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