An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta acquitted earlier today, former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in the case of the murder of Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Bugti who died in a military operation in 2006.
The court also acquitted two others, former federal home minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, former provincial home minister Shoaib Nosherwani.
Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed along with his 26 comrades during an operation in the mountains of Dera Bugti in August, 2006. Musharraf, who was president at the time, had directed the military operation.
Musharraf had constituted a federal negotiation team headed by Mushahid Hussain Syed, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and the late Makhdoom Amin Faheem in March 2005 that held numerous meetings with Nawab Bugti.
In January 2015, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) indicted Musharraf in the case of the murder of Jamhoori Watan Party leader. Two other accused – former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao and Balochistan’s former home minister Shoaib Ahmed Nausherwani – were also indicted.
