Usman Kakar
Senator Usman Kakar | |
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عثمان کاکړ | |
| Member of the Senate of Pakistan | |
| In office 13 March 2015 – March 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1961 Hindu Bagh (now known as Muslim Bagh), Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Died | 21 June 2021 (aged 59) Karachi, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Mysterious Head injury |
| Resting place | Muslim Bagh, Killa Saifullah, Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Political party | Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party |
| Children | Khushal Kakar (son) Dawran Kakar (son) Batura Kakar (daughter) |
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| Alma mater | University of Balochistan |
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.