Warrants issued for Shahzain Bugti, others

QUETTA: Additional Sessions Judge Sayed Zulfiqar Naqvi issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Jamhoori Watan Party provincial President Shahzain Bugti and his 26 accomplices on Friday.

The arrest warrants were issued after the Supreme Court Treasury Bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry cancelled the bail of Shahzain and his guards, earlier granted by the Balochistan High Court.

They were arrested by paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) on December 22, 2010 at the Buleli checkpost here for allegedly smuggling weapons. Reports said a huge cache of weapons and ammunition, including 50 Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti-aircraft guns and 46,000 rounds was recovered from the vehicles they were travelling in.Shahzain had approached the Balochistan High Court and was granted bail.