Mir Sarfraz Bugti (Urdu, Balochi: میر سرفراز بگٹی) (born June 1, 1981[citation needed]) is a Pakistani politician belonging to Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Sarfraz Bugti had served as Home and Tribal Affairs Minister of Balochistan. Early life and education
Sarfraz was born in a village of Dera Bugti, Balochistan, Pakistan. His father Mir Ghulam Qadir Masori Bugti was a tribal elder of the Maso
ri sub-clan of the Bugti tribe who was a member of General Zia's Majlis-e-Shoora before becoming a part of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Mir Ghulam was known to be active against the sardari or neo-feudal system of Balochistan and being a political rival of Nawab Akbar Bugti. His brother, Jan Mohammad Bugti has also been active in politics as a PPP candidate. Sarfraz completed his early education at the Lawrence College, Murree before enrolling at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad to study Defence and Strategic Studies (DSS) but had to interrupt his higher education when his father was jailed by Pervez Musharraf. Later, he tried to join the Pakistan Army and to pass the Inter-Services Selection Board (ISSB) exams. Provincial politics in Balochistan
In 2013, he won the Provincial Assembly elections from Constituency PB-24 as a representative of the Baloch community from Dera Bugti with a clear majority as an independent candidate by securing 10013 votes, and after elections joined PML (N). Sarfraz became Minister of Interior of Balochistan on 14 October 2013. National politics as Caretaker Interior Minister
In August 2023, he took charge as the country's Caretaker Interior Minister. One of his first decisions was to ask for the release of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activists. On 15 December 2023, he resigned from this position in order to contest the 2024 Pakistani general election. in December 2023, Bugti joined Pakistan People's Party.
