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India-Pakistan

Court reissues warrant for Akbar Bugti’s grandson

2006-03-01

An Anti-Terrorism Court has reissued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Sardar Brahamdagh Khan, grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti, in the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) bombing case. Brahamdagh Khan and an alleged accomplice, Abdul Hameed, have already been declared absconders by the court. On Tuesday, the case investigation officer submitted a report before the court stating that the warrants could not be executed as the men were missing. The court reissued the warrants and adjourned until March 6. In normal practice, trial courts declare absconders as proclaimed offenders after issuing the warrants twice or thrice. In case the court decides to try the absconders in absentia, it appoints a lawyer to defend them. The men are wanted in connection with the November 15 bombing of the PIDC complex in Karachi, which killed four people. According to the police indictment, two other men – Aziz Khan and Mangla Khan – arrested within 24 hours of the blast have confessed to carrying out the bombing before a judicial magistrate. The men have testified that Brahamdagh Bugti ordered them to bomb the office of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited in the PIDC complex, the police told the court.

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India-Pakistan

Warrant issued for Bugti’s grandson

2006-02-11

An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) for the arrest of Sardar Brahamdagh Khan, the grandson of Sardar Akbar Khan Bugti, in the PIDC bombing case on Friday. "It's a bughunt." The court, headed by Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch, made its first sitting inside Central Prison Karachi after the notification for a jail trial for this case was issued last month. Brahamdagh Khan and Abdul Hameed were already declared absconders by the court. On Friday, the prosecution also provided copies of the witnesses’ statements to accused Aziz Khan and Mangla Khan who were arrested within 24 hours of the November 15 bomb blast at the main entrance of the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) building complex. Prosecutor Mazhar Qayuoom handed the accused the copies as they have yet to engage a lawyer. The court, ordering the investigation officer to arrest and produce the absconders before it, adjourned further proceedings till February 18. According to the police indictment, both accused had confessed before the judicial magistrate south to carrying out the bombing. Citing these confessional statements, the police had claimed in the indictment that both the accused had confessed that absconding accused Sardar Brahamdagh, a tribal leader of the Bugti tribe, gave them and another absconding accused Abdul Hameed the task of carrying out the bombing at the office of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) that is housed in the PIDC building complex as PPL was not providing local Baloch people jobs. Four people were killed and scores of others were injured in a car bomb blast on November 15 outside the PIDC building complex. Accused Aziz, Mangla and Abdul Jabbar were arrested within 24 hours of the incident. However, the police later dropped charges against Abdul Jabbar for want of evidence.

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