QUETTA: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, the chief of Jamhoori Watan Party, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Dera Bugti on Tuesday night.

He died of heart attack on Monday morning in the Combined Military Hospital in Quetta where he had been admitted for facing serious breathing difficulties.

His body was flown to his native town of Dera Bugti after funeral prayers held at the Bugti House in Quetta.

Commander Southern Command Lt Gen Mohammad Naseer Khan Janjua provided the helicopter for taking the coffin to Dera Bugti.

Mir Gohram Talal Bugti, Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti, former Balochistan chief minister Mir Humayan Marri, Nawabzada Zamran Bugti, provincial minister Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhel, former finance minister Mir Asim Kurd, MPA Sardarzada Sarfaraz Domki, Mir Tariq Mehmood Khetiran, elders of the Bugti tribe and a large number of people attended the funeral prayers.

Nawabzada Talal was son of the founder president of JWP and former governor and chief minister of Balochistan Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti who was killed in a military operation in August 2006 in Tartani area of Kohlu district.

Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2015

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