Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti

Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti was born on 12th July,1927 in British Raj. He was the Minister of State for Interior and Governor of Balochistan Province in Pakistan and the head of the Bugti tribe in Baluchistan. He was educated from Oxford, England. He and his family were the very main personalities of the area and known as the Tiger of Balochistan, or Gas Man because they were having ownership of many gas fields in Balochistan.

Nawab Akbar Bugti was elected in National Assembly in May 1958. However, He than had some problems with NAP leadership, especially the new Balochistan Governor, Mir Ghaus Baksh Bizenjo. He informed the Federal Government and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of the alleged London Plan, which resulted in the dismissal of the provincial governor as well as the Chief Minister Sardar Ataullah Khan Mengal and his cabinet on February 14, 1973 and the very next day Government appointed him the Governor of Balochistan. He resigned on January 1, 1974. In 1988, he joined the Balochistan National Alliance and was elected Chief Minister on February 4, 1989. He again had some problems with Federal Government which was than headed by Benazir Bhutto and resigned on August 6, 1990. For the 1990 General Elections, he formed political party, called the “Jamboree Watan Party (JWP)”, which was the Balochistan only political party and was elected to the provincial assembly. In 1993, he represented the JWP in Nation assembly parliament and in 1993, Nawab sahib announced his name as a candidate for President of Pakistan but withdrew his name .In 1997, he again re-elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan, present the JWP in the assembly.

On August 26, 2006, Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti was killed in a bombing operation by Pakistan army as he went underground due to the clash with the Government.