 QUETTA: Paramilitary forces have reoccupied trenches in Dera Bugti that they agreed to give up in a deal between government representatives and the Bugti tribe in March, tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti said on Tuesday. âWe remain bound (by the agreement) but there are neither any gentlemen nor anyone to honour pledges,â Bugti told a group of reporters in Dera Bugti. He said under the deal, struck by Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Senator Mushahid Hussain, the Frontier Corp vacated 15 trenches and Bugti fighters vacated their trenches to restore peace.
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However, Frontier Corps personnel have now occupied about 45 trenches in the area. The deal was struck in March after clashes between FC troops and Bugti fighters that local say left some 70 people dead. Bugti said that government officials were lying about ongoing activities in Dera Bugti and Kohlu. He claimed some 60 people including women and children had been killed in shelling by government forces in Marri areas. |