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Published 25 Mar, 2006 12:00am

‘Exiled’ Bugti tribesmen returning today

DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 24: More than 1,500 Bugti tribesmen living ‘in exile’ in southern Punjab are set to return to Dera Bugti on Saturday under a heavy security cover. Led by Mir Ahmadan Bugti, who heads the Raija sub-clan of the Bugtis, nearly 1,600 of his followers will reach Dera Bugti via Sui on 90 buses, wagons and trucks.

The transport, it is learnt, has been impounded by the administration.

The drivers of the seized transport however left their vehicles as they did not want to risk their lives.

The administration, it was learnt, had asked drivers from the public sector departments to be on duty.

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