An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Quetta reissued an arrest warrants against former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani and former District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) Abdul Samad Lasi in a case pertaining to the murder of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti and ordered authorities to produce the accused persons at its next hearing on November 26.
Former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and former provincial home minister Shoaib Nowsherwani appeared in the court during Tuesday's hearing. Former President Pervez Musharraf, the main accused in the case, did not appear before the court. According to his counsel, the former president could not be produced in view of security threats to his life. Balochistan nationalist leader Akbar Khan Bugti was killed in a cave on August 26, 2006.