The body of a Pakistani rebel leader whose killing by the military triggered violent protests has been dug out from a collapsed cave and his funeral will take place today, a senior official said late yesterday. The body of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a respected tribal chieftain from energy-rich Balochistan province, was badly decomposed after his death at the weekend, military spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said. “The body is in an advanced stage of decay as it had been badly crushed under a big boulder,” he said. Army engineers clearing debris at the collapsed cave sighted the body of ethnic Baloch nationalist Nawab Akbar Bugti on Wednesday. The octogenarian rebel Baloch leader, who had been involved in a long-running confrontation with the central government, was killed when the cave crashed in as security forces besieging it tried to arrest him on Saturday.