DERA BUGTI: Local tribal leaders have asked the Ansar Burney Trust International, a human rights organisation, to invite Sardar Akbar Bugti to Dera Bugti and ask him to walk on fire to prove his innocence. The Bugti tribal chief has been forced to slip into the mountains after fierce fighting between his forces, rival groups and the Frontier Corps. Locals say during his rule of Dera Bugti, it was common practice for a person charged with a crime to be asked to take seven steps on fire to prove his innocence. According to the tradition, the accused is invited to an open place where all crimes against him are read. He is then told to walk barefoot on fire and then his feet are inspected. If they are burnt, he is considered guilty and executed and if they are not burnt, the accused is considered innocent.