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Govt wants Baloch leader Brahumdagh Bugti to ‘feel at home’, may soon offer place to stay in India: Report

Exiled Baloch nationalist leader and Baloch Republican Party (BRP) founder Brahumdagh Bugti may soon find a place to stay in India.

India TV Politics Desk India TV Politics Desk New Delhi Published on: October 06, 2016 15:02 IST
Baloch Republican Party (BRP) founder Brahumdagh Bugti
Baloch Republican Party (BRP) founder Brahumdagh Bugti

Exiled Baloch nationalist leader and Baloch Republican Party (BRP) founder Brahumdagh Bugti may soon find a place to stay in India.

According to reports, the government has taken account of his plea seeking asylum and is busy making arrangements for the same. It is also believed that the government is looking for a place with suitable climatic conditions for him to stay and feel being at home.

Hindustan Times reported that the Ministry of Home Affairs has already consulted the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and soon a final call will be taken in this regard.

“We have asked Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) to provide an assessment on how many Baloch’s living in exile will follow Bugti to India. Accordingly we will decide on the place where he will be asked to stay,” a senior MHA official was quoted as saying in the HT report.

Bugti had last month held talks with Indian diplomats in Geneva and filed a plea seeking asylum. The MEA had forwarded the same to MHA to take a final call. 

Bugti, who has been living in Switzerland, wants to move out of European country to carry forward his campaign for a ‘free Balochistan’.  

The HT report further said that Bugti may also be allowed to form a government-in-exile of Independent Balochistan.

On the other hand, Pakistan has asked India not to grant asylum to Bugti and called him a terrorist.

India had in past granted asylum to Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama against the wishes of China. Beijing wanted to detain him as war criminal.

“We have one such past experience when Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, along with his followers, sought political asylum in India in 1959 and formed a government-in-exile in Dharamshala. Officials of the home ministry are looking at the process followed then,” the official told HT.

Bugti is grandson of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a Baloch nationalist leader killed by the Pakistan Army in 2006.

Bugti left Balochistan to save his life after Akbar Bugti was killed and was first given asylum in Afghanistan from where he shifted to Switzerland in 2010 following a life threat. 

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