I.S.I. helps build private jail to torture Bugti tribesmen

I.S.I. helps build private jail to torture Bugti tribesmen
Share: by Ahmar Mustikhan January 6, 2010

Pakistan's infamous Inter Services Intelligence, who installed Mir Aali Bugti as the tribal successor of former chief minister and governor of Baluchistan Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti have helped him build a private prison in Sui to torture his political opponents.

As many as 200 Bugtis are lodged at the jail and routinely being tortured, according to information gathered by this correspondent from Baluchistan.

The Pakistan government and secret services had always allaged that the slain Nawab Bugti had a private prison, but no sooner than they installed one of his grandsons to the position of tribal chief they help him build a private jail at an old fort of the Bugtis in Sui town.

Not only common tribesmen but also notables, called Waderas, who disagree with Aali Bugti's policy of toeing the line of the Military Intelligence and I.S.I. line of uninterrupted gas supply to the Punjab are imprisoned at the private jail.


"Wadera Mohmmad Bux chief of Mondrani Bugti subtribe, Wadera Sher Mohammad Bugti from Masoori subtribe and Wadera Ali Mohammad Bugti from the Kalpar sub-tribes are presently being held incommunicado at the jail," a well-placed source in Dera Bugti said on condition of strict anonymity.

"It is an irony that the very same intelligence agencies who accused Nawab Bugti of maintaining a private jail, have help build the prison," he added.

Mir Aali Bugti has a major handicap as per tribal traditions. His maternal grandfather Nabi Bakhsh Zehri was a marble magnate, but spineless politician. Nawab Bugti was totally opposed to his son Salim Bugti marrying the daughter of Nabi Bakhsh Zehri, who was a loori -- someone from a community of people who lost their tribal status in ancient tribal wars.


Overwhelming majority of Bugtis and Baluch people look upon Brahumdagh Bugti, 29, as the rightful successor to the late leader as Nawab Bugti had personally groomed him for this position and had assigned him to take care of tribal disputes and fiscal issues of the Bugti tribe during his lifetime.

He is now one of the key leaders struggling to end Pakistan military occupation of Baluchistan and is widely loved and respected as a national hero -- the youngest in the Baluchistan national liberation movement.

Nawab Bugti became a suspect in the eyes of the intelligence services after his one on one meetings with then U.S. ambassador Robert Oakley, who described Bugti as a martyr.

Following Nawab Bugti's meetings with Oakley, in June 1992 the Inter Services Intelligence had killed one of Nawab Bugti's sons Salal Bugti, who was being groomed as his possible successor -- prior to Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti's coming of age.

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