PML President Shujaat Hussain on Sunday slammed the killing of Akbar Bugti. Talking to Daily Times, he said: "It's a very sad incident. It should not have happened." Shujaat said that he would request President Musharraf to hand over Bugti's body to his relatives. He also recounted how the late Nawab had saved the life of his father, Zahoor Elahi, after his arrest by the Bhutto government in 1973. Bugti, he said, had refused to participate in a plan to murder Zahoor Elahi, instead providing him with security during his incarceration in Balochistan. "I am indebted to him. How can we forget his great favour to our family?"