QUETTA, Sept 7: Sons of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti have called for exhuming the body of their father under the supervision of the international commission and setting up an international medical board in order to ascertain the ‘cause of death’.

Speaking to newsmen at the Bugti House here on Thursday, Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti and Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti said they had called the press conference for lodging, through media, an FIR against President General Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani, Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf, the corps commander Quetta and the IGFC for killing their father.

Since police would not register an FIR, they had approached the media, they said while speaking to the press for the first time since the death of Nawab Bugti on August 26.

They said Nawab Bugti was not the only person who was killed in mysterious circumstances. Even the Founder of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, breathed his last in an ambulance that was not fit for carrying a patient; the first prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated by a mercenary; Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, as claimed by Sharifuddin Pirzada, was murdered, they added.

They said the Khan of Kalat, who joined Pakistan in March 1948 under an agreement with the Quaid-i-Azam, was humiliated and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who laid the foundation of the country’s nuclear programme, was hanged.

Sardar Ataullah Mengal’s son Asad Mengal disappeared and then found murdered, they said. Similarly, the brother of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in the front of his house in Karachi, they added.

Jamil Bugti and Talal Bugti said that on August 26, “a great personality whose wisdom, truthfulness, principled approach, literary qualities and administrative capabilities were acknowledged even by his enemies was killed.”

Nawab Bugti refused to bow down and embraced martyrdom, they said, adding that now it was their responsibility to expose the forces involved in his killing. For the same purpose, this FIR was being lodged through the media, they said.

They said Nawab Bugti was struggling for autonomy of the provinces and unification of all Baloch political parties. He raised his voice against the sexual assault on a Sindhi woman two years ago, opposed the establishment of cantonments in Balochistan, and spoke for the Baloch people who would turn into a minority because of the government plan of modernising Gwadar, they said.

They said that from August 26 to 31, the government issued contradictory statements about the body of Nawab Bugti. And on September 1, contrary to Shariah, moral values and tribal customs, an ‘unknown body’ locked in a coffin was buried in the absence of his heirs, they added.

They confirmed that Bramdagh Bugti and Mir Ali Bugti, grandsons of Nawab Bugti, were alive and safe.

To a question, they said nobody could stop them from going to Dera Bugti. They said they would definitely go to their homes whenever they decided to do so.

Former chief minister Mir Hamayun Marri, JWP Secretary General Senator Shahid Hassan Bugti and Information Secretary Amanullah Kanrani were present at the press conference.