SANGHAR, Aug 26: Members of the Bugti tribe held protests in Sanghar and Hyderabad on Sunday to mark the sixth death anniversary of their chief and veteran politician Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.

Wearing black armbands and holding pictures of Akbar Bugti hundreds of tribesmen and activists of Jamhoori Watan Party marched in procession for six kilometres from Kot Nawab to Sanghar on Sunday.

They shouted slogans against Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and demanded his arrest on charges of murdering the octogenarian politician.

Addressing the protesters, Daryan Bugti, central information secretary of Jamhoori Watan Party, Mir Shahid Bugti and Farooq Bugti said that Nawab Akbar Bugti stood for the rights of Balochs and chose to die instead of bowing to the Musharraf regime.

His family, they said, was not allowed to visit Dera Bugti, their ancestral home, and 80,000 Bugti families were made to leave their area after the assassination of Akbar Bugti.

They urged the government to bring back Musharraf and punish him for their leader’s murder.

They complained that they had voted for the PPP but the party had disappointed them. What could the PPP government do for the Baloch when it could not do justice with its own slain leader, they said.

They claimed that military operation in Balochistan was continuing and demanded it be stopped immediately. They alleged that killers of Baloch people were sitting in assemblies.

Our Staff correspondent adds from Hyderabad: A number of activists of the Bugti Welfare Ittehad held a demonstration outside the local press club on Sunday in protest against murder of their leader six year ago during the Musharraf government and demanded immediate arrest of Musharraf.

They chanted slogans against the government and said the state had been oppressing the Baloch people since 1947.