‘Even today it is important to explain the reason for leaving Dera Bugti’

A dilapidated building whose roof and walls are broken at some places. From its texture and architecture, it can be guessed that it must have been a magnificent building in its time and so must have been its residents.
However, the cracks on the walls are not caused by any natural calamity or earthquake, rather it was caused by the bombardment of the fort in 2005 and later when Nawab Akbar Bugti left it and went to the mountains. was destroyed.
Nawab Akbar Bugti, who was a veteran statesman of Balochistan and a Nawab of the Bugti tribe who strictly adheres to Baloch traditions. His 15th anniversary is being celebrated today. He was killed in 2006 during a military operation in the mountains of Taratani.
What did the Bugti tribe lose after the departure of Nawab Akbar Bugti and what do they feel even now? In this regard, when we asked Shahzad Bakht from a young man from the Bugti tribe, Tuan said that the tribe feels as if the shadow of their father has been lifted from their heads.
Shahzad Bakht told ‘Independent Urdu’ that when Nawab Akbar was killed in the Bugti operation, the Bugti tribes were in a state of shock. Which lasted for many years.
He said that the Bugti tribe felt that their valuable asset was taken away from them and they became helpless.

According to Shahzad: It may not be possible to fill their gap, but to some extent this deficiency has been fulfilled by the grandsons of Nawab Bugti, Nawabzada Ghoram Bugti and Nawabzada Shah Zain Bugti.
He said that when Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in 2006, after that his fort in Dera Bugti was also vacated as its condition had deteriorated due to bombing. Nawabzada Ghoram Bugti came here in 2013.
Shahzad said that after the arrival of Nawabzada Ghoram Bugti, he not only took up residence in the fort but also resumed the series after the previous period. Which includes langarkhana, open kitchen.
He said that not only now the fort has been settled, but people also come with their problems and the langar is also running. The vibrancy has been largely restored.
As the situation in Dera Bugti did not improve after the military operation, many people migrated. When Shahzad was asked about this, he said that the situation of Aam Bugti is bad at the moment.

He said that during the time of Nawab Akbar Bugti in Dera Bugti, job quota was given by PPL and OGDCL, it has been stopped. The city used to get electricity from Guddu Barrage, billed by PPL, that too has now been closed. Similarly, there is a shortage of water. The fact is that the Bugti tribes are currently living a painful life.
Shahzad says that now the Bugti tribe wishes that Nawabzada Jameel Akbar Bugti should return to Dera Bugti and try to fill the void.
Nawab Akbar Bugti had a large library in the fort of Dera Bugti, which has now turned into a ruin and has no books.

Akbar Bugti, a book lover
Sham Kumar Nawab is one of Bugti’s non-political friends. He writes in one of his essays that Nawab Akbar Bugti showed him that he had done a lot of work on the classical literature of the whole world.
He further writes that Nawab Akbar Bugti was well versed in Sanskrit. He worked on the great 5th century poet Kalidas. Apart from this, he had studied all religions deeply.
Sham Kumar writes that Nawab Akbar Bugti’s library had a huge collection of rare books and rare classical books on every subject. They have a complete set of Plato’s dialogues, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Descartes, Nietzsche, Schiller, Karl Marx, Engels, Sartre, Bertrand Russell, Gorgi, Tolstoy, so that they have a collection of books by all the great writers, historians and philosophers of the world. was present. Which he had studied deeply.’
He further writes that ‘in his library there were all the volumes of Gibbon’s History of the Fall of the Roman Empire, every rare book on economics, fiction, philosophy. Apart from this, he had all the inspired books, religious scriptures, anthropology, archaeology, Greek philosophy, old poetry of Rome, Hemingway, François, Saigan, Sartre and Albert Camus.
Maqbool Ahmad Jafar, a journalist from Quetta visited the Nawab’s fort in Dera Bugti to assess the current condition. He said that 15 years have passed since the incident of Nawab Akbar Bugti, but the atmosphere of fear is still there.
Maqbool Ahmad Jafar told Independent Urdu that when we entered Dera Bugti, we were faced with countless check posts where at each one you have to tell who you are going to, what the job is. First entry or not.
He said that while reaching Dera Bugti city, I guessed that there is a check post every kilometer.

What did you see in the Nawab Fort?
Maqbool said that when you enter through the gate of the fort. This gate is also similar to the big forts of ancient times like we see in Lahore.
Next to the door is the langarkhana where food is prepared for the people. On the other hand, people gather at one place in the fort to share their problems. This has been going on for centuries. It was during the reign of Nawab Akbar Bugti. At present, his grandson Nawabzada Ghoram Bugti and his brother Shah Zain Bugti are doing this work.
According to Maqbool, ‘a few feet away from it stands a library building which has now become a ruin and presents a scene of destruction. The construction shows that it is a very old building.’

He said that in this library there were some rare and rare books of Nawab Akbar Bugti. Which was considered a great collection. Now its places are vacant. After the shelling, its roof did not even remain.’
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was born on 12th July 1927 in Hajikot area of ​​Barkhan. He was sent by his father to Karachi in 1937 for formal education, where he studied at Goins Private School.
The architecture of the fort bears testimony to its texture and glorious past. Which is now in a very dilapidated condition. Most of the parts are ruined and there are cracks in the walls. There is a mosque in front of the fort and a sitting area has been established next to it.
Maqbool said that three houses in the fort have been built according to the same map. One is behind the library and two are on the north side of the library. Nawabzada Ghoram Bugti resides in the northern part. The other part is deserted.

A political journey full of ups and downs
After the death of his father in 1939, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was appointed to the position of chieftaincy. He first joined the Republican Party and was made Minister of State for Home Affairs in Feroz Khan Noon’s cabinet.
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was arrested on 18 August 1962 from Karachi where he wanted to hold a rally against Ayub Khan. Meanwhile, he was transferred to Lyallpur, Sibi and Quetta jails. He was released under General Musa who announced amnesty.

Nawab Akbar Bugti was again arrested in 1968 and was sent to Mianwali Jail. Here he went on a long hunger strike, which lasted for 29 days and on the 30th day he was forcibly fed through the nose in the hospital.

Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti became the Governor of Balochistan in 1973 and became the Chief Minister of Balochistan in 1989. On 15 August 1990, he established his party, Jamhoori Watan Party. Elected member of National Assembly in 1993 and 1996.

‘Mysterious Explosion’
In 2005, Nawab Bugti’s differences with the Musharraf government continued to grow. Bugti presented 15-point demands to the government, including greater control over the province’s resources and a ban on the construction of military cantonments.
Meanwhile, the law and order situation in Balochistan began to deteriorate from bad to worse.
To avoid government action, Bugti moved to the mountains, where on August 26, 2006, a military operation took place against him and the cave in which he was taking shelter collapsed due to shelling and Bugti was trapped under it.
The army said in a statement that its troops had reached the edge of the cave when the cave collapsed due to a “mysterious” explosion.

The then Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf was accused of murdering Nawab Akbar Bugti by filing a case against him, an FR was also filed against him, and he was arrested in 2013 and placed under house arrest. went. But later he was released on bail and went out of the country and this matter was stopped.

Still scared
Maqbool says that the local people say that this fort was built some two hundred years ago. It was built by Nawab Akbar Bugti’s father.
The journalist said that ‘I saw the worst condition in the fort of Hindus and other minority communities who live in the west. There were 400 families here during the reign of Nawab Akbar Bugti. He left his home after the 2005 shelling and subsequent operation. More than 30 of their people were killed in the bombing.
According to Maqbool: ‘Now 35 to 40 families of the minority community have returned here. Because these people cannot afford rent in other cities.
There is still an atmosphere of fear in the area and no one is afraid to speak in front of the camera. Maqbool said that when we visited the city and wanted to talk to people, no one spoke.
He said that a Bugti told me that if I say anything, I will be picked up. Can you guarantee that nothing will happen to me?’
He adds that 15 years have passed since the Nawab Akbar Bugti incident, but despite this the problems here have increased and not decreased. People are afraid. I have never seen as much fear of the state as here. The reason for this may be the operation here, the difficulty of Darbadar’s stumbles.
Shahzad Bugti says that many people were against Nawab Akbar Bugti in his life. Those who believed that many of their actions were not right, but at that time, apart from a common bug, they also believed that their patron saint had separated from them.