Displaced tribesmen return to Dera Bugti after eight years

E-Paper | May 06, 2026

QUETTA: Displaced Bugti tribesmen returned to their hometown of Dera Bugti on Thursday after about eight years.

Fifty vehicles carrying the tribesmen led by Nawabzada Gohram Bugti, a grandson of Akbar Bugti, left Dera Allahyar in Jaffarabad district for Dera Bugti after having been cleared by federal and provincial governments. After a brief stay in Jacobabad, Kashmore and Sui, the convoy reached Dera Bugti.

The tribesmen left Dera Bugti in 2005 after a military operation had been launched against Nawab Akbar Bugti by Gen Pervez Musharraf. Nawab Bugti was killed in a cave in Kohlu district.

Hundreds of thousands of Bugti tribesmen left their homes and moved to Jaffarabad, Nasirabad, Sibi, Jacobabad, Sadiqabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Sukkur, Hyderabad, Sanghar, Osta Mohammad and Karachi.

They tried twice to return to Dera Bugti in the past, but were stopped by security forces at the Dolo checkpost.Several months ago, over 1,000 internally displaced Bugtis led by Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti and his younger brother Gohram Bugti set up a protest camp outside the Islamabad Press Club.

They demanded that the government should provide them security and hand over the fort of Nawab Bugti to the family after getting it vacated by security forces.

Sources in the provincial home department told Dawn that the government had provided security to the returning tribesmen.“The government of Dr Abdul Malik Baloch had ordered law-enforcement agencies to provide foolproof security to the convoy and allow it to enter Dera Bugti safely,” a senior official said.

Talking to journalists, Gohram Bugti said there was no risk of tribal clash if the displaced Bugti tribesmen lived in their hometown. “We want to live in our hometown in peace,” he said.

The sources quoted a district official as saying that the fort of Nawab Bugti had been vacated by the Frontier Corps for the family of Nawab Bugti.

Political circles welcomed the government’s decision of allowing the Bugti family to live in Dera Bugti and said it would help restore peace in the area and other parts of Balochistan.

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Farhan

Jul 26, 2013 08:21am

I think that's a major mistake, they will just take this opportunity to create more trouble and load up on weapons in the fort.

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W.U>.I

Jul 26, 2013 09:01am

A sensible descison that should have been made a long time ago.

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akhtar

Jul 26, 2013 11:54am

There is lot of loud cry in the media about the tyrant Akbar Bugti,s murder and the case is subjudice in quetta high court against the than president gen Pervez Musharraf I wonder why the govt has not brought a murder case against Akbar bugtis family for killing five officers of Pakistan army who had come to negotiate peace deal with him and when they were returning the mine already planted in the cave were blasted and all of them were killed. I ask one question from govt of Pakistan why no action has been taken to register FIR against Akbar Bugti and his family members. Does the govt of Pakistan considers the lives of its soldiers as worthless trash? Else it does not feel itself duty bound to take action against the killers of those killed in the performance of their duty. The consequences of this negligence will be disastrous for Pakistan. Previously the police was meted out this same treatment and their sacrifices were ignored for political convenience which has demoralized them and now they have become indifferant to the call of their duty. Imagine if this happens in case of army what will be the consequencs?

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shahid

Jul 26, 2013 06:23pm

There are lots of Baluchs living in Punjab, after they have lived there their misconception about Punjab is no longer there, I have worked with Baluchs, they are honest and lovely people, let them live in peace their homeland or where ever they want to live in Pakistan its their country too.

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