Shahzain announces bounty for Musharraf

Shahzain Bugti, a grandson of slain Bugti chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti, on Sunday announced head money for former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.

Akbar Bugti (L) - Musharraf (C) - Shahzin (R)

Akbar Bugti, along with his comrades, was killed in a military operation in Kohlu district of Balochistan in 2006. The operation was ordered by the then army chief and president Pervez Musharraf.

“We will give Rs1 million in cash and a bungalow worth Rs100 million to anybody who kills Musharraf. And we’ll also provide him full security,” Shahzain Bugti said while speaking to the media after condoling the death of Pir Pagara with his bereaved family on Sunday. 

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Gen Pervez Musharraf 'to return to Pakistan'

[ via BBC News Asia ] 

Pakistan's former president, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has said he will return to Pakistan at the end of this month.

He faces arrest on arrival as he is accused of failing to provide adequate security for former PM Benazir Bhutto ahead of her assassination in 2007. However, Gen Musharraf, who denies any wrongdoing, has been living abroad since stepping down in 2008.

Gen Musharraf told the rally in Karachi that he would be in Pakistan from 27 to 30 January and planned to participate in parliamentary elections, which are due by 2013.

He now leads his own political faction, the All Pakistan Muslim League.

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Bonn conference not to produce any magic: Musharraf

[ Pakistan Today ] 4 Dec

While there is much uproar of Pakistan's decision not to attend the Bonn conference on Afghanistan as a consequence to deadly NATO attack on Pakistan's military check-posts, leaving 24 soldiers dead, the former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf says that the Bonn Conference will not produce any magical results that could solve the Afghanistan issue. 

Expressing his views in a television interview he said that no one knows who is leading the Taliban and who holds sway over them. 

“Who is the real commander of Taliban? This is an important question. Mullah Umer or Gulbadin Hikmatyar or Haqqani? So who should be talked to? ”

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