Usman Kakar
Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar (; ), also known as Usman Lala (), was a Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP). He was an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He was a member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021. On 21 June 2021, Kakar died in Karachi from a head injury he had sustained four days earlier at his residence in Quetta. On 1 July, a judicial commission was formed to investigate his death. Early life and education. He was born in 1961 in Muslim Bagh, Killa Saifullah District.<ref name="tribune/12march2018"></ref> He  received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Law College Quetta in 1987. During his student life, he joined the Pashtun Student Organisation as unit secretary. Political career. He joined the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) in 1996. He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of PMAP in the 2015 Pakistani Senate election. He ran for the post of the Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan as a candidate of PMAP in March 2018. He was unsuccessful and lost the office to a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Saleem Mandviwalla, who got 54 votes  and who was supported by the joint opposition. Kakar received 44 votes and was supported by the Pakistan Muslim League (N), the ruling party. Death. On 17 June, Kakar was found lying unconscious on a carpet in his house in Quetta, with blood flowing from his head. He was shifted to a hospital in Quetta where he underwent emergency head surgery and was put on a ventilator. When a part of his head was shaved for the operation, his head was found to be swollen and injured. The CT scan showed that there was a blood clot in his head  and his condition was gradually deteriorating. He was later shifted on an air ambulance to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, where he died on 21 June because of accumulation of blood in his brain due to the head injury. Kakar's family and some politicians claimed that there might be foul play behind Kakar's death. Khushal Kakar, son of Usman Kakar, stated that the family had found Kakar lying on a carpet at his guestroom with blood flowing from his head. "It seemed that he was grabbed by one person and hit on the head," he added . Kakar's personal physician, Samad Panezai, stated that the cause of the head injury was not known. Reactions. Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), praised Kakar as "a strong voice of democracy and a front line soldier of the struggle for civilian supremacy." She added that the "memory of his struggle would be kept alive." Saleem Mandviwalla of the Pakistan Peoples Party, who was the deputy chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, said that Kakar's family believed that he was "murdered". Mandviwalla added: "Doctors were also skeptical about how such profuse bleeding in the head  could be caused by a mere fall." Shahadat Awan of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Muhammad Akram of the National Party raised their doubts that there might be foul play behind the "sudden death". Senators Maulana Atta-ur-Rehman and Kamran Murtaza of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) also said that the nature of the death raised questions. "[Kakar] had received several threats in the past, and now his death is shrouded in mystery," Atta-ur-Rehman said. "He was alone at the time he fell in the house, and if somebody was there, he should not have been  lying there for an hour or so," Murtaza added. Hidayatullah Khan of the Awami National Party also voiced his concern and demanded an investigation. Mohsin Dawar, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, demanded for a complete investigation, claiming that the head injury was "too severe to result from a fall." Postmortem report. The postmortem report said there were no marks of violence on any part of his body. The report concluded that Kakar died of natural causes.