Usman Kakar

Senator
Usman Kakar
عثمان کاکړ
Member of the Senate of Pakistan
In office
13 March 2015 – March 2021
Personal details
Born(1961-06-23)23 June 1961
Hindu Bagh (now known as Muslim Bagh), Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan[1]
Died21 June 2021(2021-06-21) (aged 59)
Karachi, Pakistan
Cause of deathHead injury[5]
Resting placeMuslim Bagh, Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan
Political partyPashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
ChildrenKhushal Kakar[2] (son)
Dawran Kakar (son)
Batura Kakar[3] (daughter)
Parent
  • Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Kakar[4] (father)
Alma materUniversity of Balochistan[1]

Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar (Pashto: عثمان کاکړ; Urdu: عثمان کاکڑ), also known as Usman Lala (عثمان لالا), was a Pakistani politician affiliated with the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) and a Pashtun Tahafuz Movement activist.[6] He was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021.

Kakar died on 21 June 2021 in Karachi from a head injury he had mysteriously sustained four days earlier at his home in Quetta.[5] His family, as well as several politicians and activists, claimed that he was murdered and demanded an inquiry. According to his postmortem report, which detected no marks of violence on any part of his body, the cause of his death would emerge in the chemical and histopathology report for which samples had been collected.[7] On 1 July, the Government of Balochistan formed a judicial commission to investigate his death, but it was abolished without any result after a month.[8][9] On 14 March 2022, the Pashtun National Jirga in Bannu demanded that Kakar's death be investigated by a credible judicial commission headed by Justice Qazi Faez Isa, and the report be made public.[10]

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  3. ^ "شہید محمد عثمان کاکڑ کے شہادت کی عظیم سانحہ پر پشتونخوا ملی عوامی پارٹی کے احتجاجی تحریک کے سلسلے میں قلعہ سیف اللہ میں احتجاجی مظاہرہ". Urdu Point (in Urdu). 13 July 2021.
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  6. ^ "SMEs to get special fund in budget". DAWN. 24 May 2005.
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  8. ^ "Balochistan govt forms judicial commission to probe Usman Kakar's death". www.thenews.com.pk.
  9. ^ "Why was the judicial commission investigating the death of Usman Kakar abolished?". Ling News 24. 9 August 2021.
  10. ^ "د بنو جرګه: افغانستان کې دې د لويې جرګې له لارې حکومت جوړ شي". BBC News (in Pashto). 14 March 2022.