Nawab Akbar Shahbaz Khan Bugti (Urdu: ???? ???? ????? ??? ??????;12 July 1927 – 26 August 2006) was the Tumandar (head) of the Bugti tribe of Baloch people who served as the Minister of State for Interior and Governor of Balochistan Province in Pakistan.
He also became minister of state for defence in the cabinet of Feroz Khan Noon.
Earlier, he has also served as the minister of state for interior.Bugti had strictly opposed education and development programmes in his area.
He was a labelled as a cruel leader by many including people from his own tribe.
Thousands of people from his tribe who raised their voice against his autocratic and absolute rule had been driven out of their homes and exiled.
The areas which were under the control of Akbar Bugti remained some of the most poor in all of Pakistan and lacked any kind of infrastructure.He was involved in a struggle, at times armed, for greater autonomy for Balochistan.
The government of Pakistan accused him of keeping a private militia and leading a guerrilla war against the state.
On 26 August 2006, Bugti, was killed when his hide-out cave, located in Kohlu, about 150 miles east of Quetta, collapsed.