Friday, September 01, 2006

Slain Pakistan tribal leader's body found after 7 days


All resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.

Pakistani Army personnel, who are searching a cave in which Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akhtar Bugti was killed, have reportedly found his body.

Well, it'd be one hell of a coincidence if it was someone else. Oh wait...this is Pakistan.

"His body is lying under a heavy boulder in the cave and the head of the body was spotted by two soldiers who crawled deep into the cave, which collapsed in an explosion in a military operation on August 25," local daily The News quoted officials as saying.

I see the head. PUSH! Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard space.

However, the report also quoted Pakistan's Defence Spokesman Maj. Gen Shaukat Sultan as saying that "the information is not correct".

It's his feet sticking out from under the boulder.

It was expected to take some time to retrieve the body, the reports said.

Why? Just push the boulders off. Not like you're going to hurt the guy.

Bugti, a 79-year-old ethnic-Baluch politician and militia leader, was killed Saturday during fierce fighting between his supporters and Pakistani forces at his mountain cave where he had been holed up since December.

Only took nine months to kill a 79 year old man? You're not trying are you Pakistan?

Bugti's family and supporters have already held funeral prayers without his body at Quetta two days ago amid heavy violence.

I hope my funeral is held amid heavy violence. It means I accomplished something.

Sultan told the media two days ago that a explosion within the cave resulted in the collapse of the cave even as the army officials rushed in, perhaps to talk to him or apprehend him.

Listen, army officials don't "rush in" to have a chat. Pakistan has pissed off a tribe by killing their leader and now they want to smooth it out by saying it wasn't them, the cave just sort of, fell apart. Sure it did. And hey, I hear the al-qaeda training camps are spontaneously combusting all the time.

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