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Bugti murder case: Shahzain Bugti to challenge acquittal of key accused

By Web Desk
January 18, 2016

<p>QUETTA: President Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), Shahzain Bugti on Monday announced to challenge the acquittal of the key accused in Akbar Bugti&rsquo;s murder case, hours after an Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) acquitted former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and others in the case.</p> <p>Addressing a press conference here at Bugti House, Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti said he does not accept the verdict of the Anti Terrorism Court, acquitting the key accused in Akbar Bugti&rsquo;s murder case.</p> <p>He said the ATC reached at the verdict in spite of the fact that &lsquo;our counsels had presented all the relevant evidence before the court&rsquo;.</p> <p>Leader of the Bugti clan in Balolchistan, Akbar Khan Bugti was killed in a cave on August 26, 2006 during a military crackdown ordered by Musharraf, who was president and army chief at the time.</p>