QUETTA: The Balochistan government today (Sunday) decided to form a judicial commission to probe the death of former Senator and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader Usman Khan Kakar.
According to a notification from the Home and Tribal Affairs Department to the Registrar of the Balochistan High Court, the provincial government has ordered the formation of an investigation team under the supervision of two judges, namely Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Zaheer Ud Din Kakar.
The notification observed that the senator “passed away on June 23”, following which his family “claims that the death seems to be unnatural and merits inquiry for the cause of death”.
It further noted that keeping in view the importance of the case, a judicial commission may be constituted under Sub Section-1 of Section (3) Of the Balochistan Tribunals of Inquiry Ordinance 1969, comprising the aforementioned judges, who will ascertain the cause of death of the late senator.
Usman Khan Kakar passes away
Former senator Usman Khan Kakar passed away in Karachi on June 21 at the age of 60. Kakar was critically injured after he fell in his house leading to severe brain injury.
Kakar’s personal physician, Dr Samad Panezai said he had received a head injury at his residence in Quetta and was shifted to a hospital within 30 minutes where he was operated upon and put on a ventilator.
He was later shifted to Karachi’s Aga Khan University Hospital on a special air ambulance where he passed away earlier today. Panezai said the cause of his death was accumulation of blood in his brain due to the injury.
Panezai said it was not known what caused the injury to Kakar, who had been found by his family lying on a carpet in his drawing room with blood flowing from his head.
Senators demand probe
Several senators from both sides of the divide paid tributes to the late senator in a session of the parliament and the House adopted a unanimous resolution expressing profound grief over Kakar’s demise.
Former deputy chairman and PPP Senator Salim Mandviwalla said Kakar’s son and other family members told him at the hospital in Karachi that they want to find out the actual cause of death and whether he has been murdered.
The PPP senator said that the surgeon, who had come from Quetta, told him that the kind of head injury and blood clotting that was seen in Kakar’s head “is not possible from falling down”. He said his family members want his postmortem and that he was alone at home at that time of the incident.
Autopsy reveals no signs of torture
According to the autopsy report, no sign of torture were found on Kakar’s body. The only marks found on the body were from surgery and intravenous (IV) cannulation during his treatment at the hospital.
The actual cause of death will be declared in a pathology report, for which several samples were collected from the body. After the completion of the autopsy, Kakar’s body was handed over to his family to carry out the burial.
