Supporters of Balochistan National Party (BNP) protest during a rally in Karachi April 12, 2009. — Reuters

QUETTA Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti has challenged in the Balochistan High Court the rejection by a Sibi Sessions Court judge his application for registration of an FIR against former president Pervez Musharraf and others for 'killing Nawab Akbar Bugti'.

Sohail Rajput, the counsel for Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, filed the petition on Tuesday and the case would come up for hearing on Sept 11. 

The petitioner submitted that Nawab Bugti had been killed on Aug 26, 2006, in a mountains area on the Dera Bugti side of the border with Kohlu districts and not in the Tartani mountains of Kohlu district as the government had claimed.

It said that security forces had buried Nawab Bugti in his ancestral graveyard in Dera Bugti, in the jurisdiction of the Dera Bugti police.

The petitioner also said that at a press conference held in Quetta a few days after the Aug 26 incident Nawabzada Jamil Bugti had accused Pervez Musharraf and others for killing Nawab Bugti.

The petitioner submitted that because the matter concerned the district of Dera Bugti, it was within the jurisdiction of the Sibi Sessions Court to direct the Dera Bugti police station to register the FIR.

Sibi Sessions Court Judge Jan Mohammad Gohar had on Sept 4 rejected the application of Nawabzada Jamil Bugti on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction to direct the Dera Bugti police station to register the FIR against the nominated persons.

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