QUETTA, Aug 20: The chief of the Bangulzai tribe and veteran politician Sardar Bahadur Khan Bangulzai was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Splinji on Sunday.

He had died in a local hospital on Saturday night after a prolonged illness. He was around 87.

Sardar Bangulzai had started his political career in 1970.

He had remained a member of the Balochistan Assembly and provincial minister for education, fisheries, home and food.