QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta has acquitted former president Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of Baloch tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti today (Monday).
As per details, the court has accepted acquittal pleas of three accused including Pervez Musharraf, former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and former home minister of Balochistan Mir Shoaib Nowsherwani in the Baloch leader’s murder.
Nawab Akbar Bugti, former chief minister of Balochistan and head of his tribe, was killed in 2006 in a military operation ordered by Musharraf who was president and army chief at the time.
Musharraf was indicted by the ATC on January 14 last year in the murder case.
Bugti had led a campaign to press for provincial autonomy and a greater share of profits for the province from Balochistan‘s natural resources.
Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, son of the Baloch chieftain, had named Musharraf and other former ministers in the murder of his father.
