In a show of solidarity, Jameel Bugti accompanied Khalid Khawaja and Amna Janjua. He told Dawn that people in Dera Bugti in particular and Balochistan in general even avoid talking on the phone since they are all monitored. “I have not been able to visit my ancestral town since last year,” he commented. “Our people are called Mohajir Bugti since nearly 90,000 Bugtis have been displaced, which has been recognised by a UN report. Even General Musharraf had to acknowledge displacement to this scale.”
According to Mr Bugti, the Hindu community of the area has been forced to take refuge in Kandhkot areas and the Dera Bugti operation was followed by looting of the Hindu community. He added that 66 people had died with his father Nawab Akbar Bugti and described the ongoing operations as “ethnic cleansing aimed at achieving control over the province’s natural resources.”
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