Federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani said on Sunday that the body of former Balochistan governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Bugti had not yet been taken out from the rubble of the bunker destroyed in the Saturday attack and that it would be buried in the presence of members of the bereaved family.| "You guys might want to wait a day or so. The mortician's going to be awful busy. I'm told they work wonders for a funeral." |
Mr Durrani said it was unclear whether Nawab BugtiÂ’s grandsons, Brahmadagh and Mirali, had also been killed in the raid which left seven security forces personnel, including three officers, dead.
He said the issue was discussed in detail at a meeting of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao and Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain with President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the summer hill resort of Murree on Sunday. The minister evaded questions whether he was personally grieved by the killing of a seasoned politician like Nawab Bugti. He refused to respond to a query as to why recommendations of the parliamentary committee on Balochistan had not been implemented by the government.
Mr Durrani dismissed as untrue reports that Nawab Bugti’s cave had been hit by a laser-guided missile. “No such missiles are manufactured by Pakistan. So there is no question of laser-guided missiles hitting the bunker in which Nawab Bugti was hiding,” he said.
| They might not have had 'made in Pakistan' stamped on them, that's true enough ... |
| "We told him to drop the heat and come out with his mitts in the air, but he didn't listen!" |