MULTAN, Jan 28: A Bugti tribe elder, Mir Ahmedan Khan has alleged that the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s report on the present situation in Balochistan was biased and misleading.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, he said the HRCP chairperson Asma Jehangir had paid no heed to the plight of thousands of people who were banished from Dera Bugti several years ago only because they were challenging the tyrannical control of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti over the area and the tribal affairs.

Ahmedan Bugti and tribesmen loyal to him were dislodged from Dera Bugti in the supervision of FC authorities in 1990s when he had reportedly differed with the Nawab Bugti on some issues.

He said he had heard that a human rights committee comprising senators, opposition leaders and right activists would soon visit Dera Bugti. The representatives of ARD and MQM might also accompany the committee. “We appeal the (proposed) committee members to also meet the victims of the tribal chiefs so that the real face of their so called nationalism may surface as well,” he said, adding “hopefully, the committee will not follow the footsteps of Asma Jehangir”.

It may be mentioned here that an HRCP delegation led by its chairperson Asma Jehangir had recently visited the troubled parts of Balochistan on a ‘fact-finding mission’ and reported gross violation of human rights there.

He alleged that there were scores of innocent people languishing in the private jail of Nawab Bugti as either their families could not pay ransom for their release or they were his (Nawab’s) political opponents.

Mir Ahmedan Bugti is said to be a former district council chairman of Marri-Bugti agency which now has been bifurcated into the districts of Kohlu and Dera Bugti. He along with Wadera Khan Muhammad Kalpar and Ghulam Qadir Masoori are considered as those Bugti tribe elders who were espousing the cause of Islamabad in the ongoing conflict between government and the Nawab Bugti.

However, some recent statements by Kalpar Wadera reveal that he has developed some differences with his official ‘patrons’. Reports are that the powers that be are now projecting his grandson, young Jalal Kalpar, as the Kalpar clan’s spokesman.

Sources told Dawn that a plan to bring Nawab Bugti’s tribal and political opponents back to Dera Bugti was to be executed in a few days.