Bugti Militia | |
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Leader | Brahamdagh Khan Bugti |
Founder | Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti |
Founded | 1952 (1952) |
Headquarters | Dera Bugti |
Bugti Militia was a militant group formed inDera Bugti, Balochistan by NawabAkbar Khan Bugti in 1952.The group believed inBaloch nationalism and fought for autonomy and more economic and political rights. The group took an active part in the 1970sInsurgency in Balochistan. However, it lost most of its fighters in Pakistani military operations and some of the surviving fighters went underground. In 2004,Nawabzada Brahamdagh Khan Bugti (the grandson of Akbar Bugti) regrouped the Bugti Militia fighters and formed theBaloch Republican Army.[1]